Issue Details: First known date: 2011... 2011 Dead Men's Silver : The Story of Australia's Greatest Shipwreck Hunter
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'Brought up on tales of pirates and great treasure hunters, Hugh Edwards never expected to handle "pieces of eight" himself. But one exciting day off the West Australian coast, that is exactly what happened, when he and his team located treasure lost from the Dutch East Indiaman shipwreck the Vergulde Draeck. It was a moment of astonishment and euphoria, as there in his hand lay a piece of silver with the inscription: PHILIPPUS IIII ... REX HISPANIA ... DG - Philip IV, King of Spain, Dei Gratia (by the Grace of God). The date on the coin was 1654.

'Nearly fifty years later Hugh Edwards has explored shipwrecks around the world - in the Mediterranean, the Falklands, Cambodia - wherever there is treasure to be found. He has been recognised as ′primary finder′ of the 1629 wreck of the Batavia and the 1727 wreck the Zeewyk. He has worked with some of the world's craziest, daring and most successful divers in some of the most beautiful or stormy places on Earth.

'This is the story of a lifetime of adventure - of dangerous seas, thrilling underwater locations, of pirate diplomacy and empire building, and of modern derring-do.' (From the publisher's website.)

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    • Sydney, New South Wales,: HarperCollins Australia , 2011 .
      Extent: 408p., [16]p. of platesp.
      Description: illus. (some col.), ports (some col.)
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      • Publication date: 1 December 2011.
      ISBN: 9780730499084 (ebk.), 9780732294502 (pbk.)

Works about this Work

Pick of the Week Bruce Elder , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 18-19 February 2012; (p. 35)

— Review of Dead Men's Silver : The Story of Australia's Greatest Shipwreck Hunter Hugh Edwards , 2011 single work autobiography
Pick of the Week Bruce Elder , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 18-19 February 2012; (p. 35)

— Review of Dead Men's Silver : The Story of Australia's Greatest Shipwreck Hunter Hugh Edwards , 2011 single work autobiography
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