Title: Plodding
Product review: As both a wreck diver and an historian, I'm usually a sucker for books like these - it's really hard to make a book about sunken treasure boring but Dennis Powers has a good go at it.I know there are several very positive customer reviews but it's interesting to look at the Publishers Reviews above; they're nearly all from people who were part of the recovery team so just shows how hard they were having to look to find positive comments.The first quarter of the book which deals with the shipwreck is interesting and well written but the rest of it...way more than you'll ever want to know about lawyers, California's state regulations, auction procedures, coin controversies etc.Part of the problem for the author may be that it's not really a very exciting story in some aspects; the ship sunk, nobody could find it, then they did, recovered a bit of gold....that's it. It's not a 400 page book, if they'd cut 50 pages maybe it would have been better.
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