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Jun102007

BOOKS: FATAL TREASURE by Jedwin Smith

Two-of-a-kind: Adventure/Man Books
by Jedwin Smith




FATAL TREASURE:
Greed and Death, Emeralds and Gold, and the Obsessive Search for the Legendary Ghost Galleon ATOCHA

by Jedwin Smith
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2003)


It is a miracle to me, and highly admirable, that Jedwin Smith was able to finish and sell this book to John Wiley & Sons on a two-book contract, at the same time investigating and writing his incredible Vietnam War memoir, OUR BROTHER'S KEEPER. This is an amazing author, and I highly recommend either or both of his books as great gifts for Dad.

FATAL TREASURE is less a personal and intimate memoir than the author's incomparable OUR BROTHER'S KEEPER. FATAL TREASURE is more an objective biography of Key West treasure-hunter Mel Fisher and his quest for gold, although readers will enjoy the same first-person, fast-paced, adventure writing, since Jedwin Smith was a part of the crew and a close confidant of the Fisher family for 15 years in researching this book. FATAL TREASURE is a part of the Jedwin Smith story, too.

The focus of FATAL TREASURE, however, is on Mel Fisher and his family and the obsessive quest for legendary gold and emeralds lost at sea when the Spanish galleon, Nuestra Senora de Atocha, and her sister ship, the Santa Margarita, sank off Key West in a hurricane in 1622.

Mel Fisher appeared on the scene in Key West three centuries later, in 1969, and became a well-known legend in his own right until his death in 1998, and even beyond that -- who has visited Key West and not visited, or at least heard about, the infamous Mel Fisher Maritime Museum?

FATAL TREASURE is the saga of the treasure-hunter and his family, through triumph (finding treasure) and tragedy (losing his son and daughter-in-law in an explosion at sea that killed five divers). It is a fantastic adventure story.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Jedwin Smith is a journalist for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution who has twice been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Since the 1980s he has been working with the Fisher family, who are searching for the Atocha and its lost treasure of gold, silver and emeralds. Smith has found emeralds and pieces of eight while hunting with the crew, and his brother now works full-time for the Fishers on the treasure hunt.

Two-of-a-kind: Adventure/Man Books by Jedwin Smith
See Also: OUR BROTHER'S KEEPER

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