BOOKS ON SHIPWRECKS/TREASURES IN SOUTHEAST ASIA
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SHIPWRECKS AND SUNKEN TREASURE IN SOUTHEAST ASIA by Tony Wells

ISBN 981-204-543-0
160 Pages, soft bound, 145 X 225mm
Published by Times Editions Pte Ltd
Times Centre, 1 New Industrial Road, Singapore, 536196
Tel.:(65)284-8844 / Fax:(65)285-4871

Finally, there's a shipwreck book that is totally dedicated to Shipwrecks and Sunken Treasure in Southeast Asia (which, also happens to be its title)! This book contains almost everything you ever wanted to know about shipwrecks and sunken treasures in Southeast Asia. But, don't take my word for it (I'm the author and people might say that I'm biased), you can see for yourself what other people have said about the book in their
book reviews.
Cannon Journal
Compilation of Info on Bronze Asian and European Type Cannons (1500-1800's)
by Tony Wells

- Currently
available in ebook only (PDF) -

consist of
89 pages total with 36 photos, 11 detailed drawings, 12 cannon information charts and two maps of Southeast Asia.
THE DIANA ADVENTURE
by Dorian Ball

ISBN 90-70295-07-5
175 Pages, hard bound, 145 X 287mm
Published by Malaysian Historical Salvors
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
in conjunction with
Kemper Printers/Publishers
Groningen, The Netherlands

The fascinating story of Dorian's several year quest for the lost English merchant ship, DIANA. Which ran onto some sunken rocks which subsequently caused its sinking on March 4th, 1817 shortly after departing from the port of Malacca. The vessel happened to be laden with over eleven tons of fine Chinese Ching dynasty porcelain. The cargo was auctioned in March 1995 by Christie's in Amsterdam for US$3.3 million.
OTHER BOOKS OF TREASURE IN SOUTHEAST ASIA
Asian Loot (Charles C. McDougald)
THAPI Treasure Markings, Signs, Codes & Symbols (D. Albert Umali)
The Gold of the Sun (Robert Curtis)
The Marcos Dynasty (Sterling Seagrave)
The Marcos Legacy Revisited: Raiders of the Lost Gold (Erick San Juan)
The Yamamoto Dynasty (Sterling Seagrave)
Tracing Marcos' Gold - The True Story of the Yamashita's Treasure (D. Ahl Umali)


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NOTE: If anyone out there knows of anymore books about treasure and/or shipwrecks in Southeast Asia please send the info to TSEATC so we can list it here also. Thanks!
Gold Warriors: America's Secret Recovery of Yamashita's Gold
by Sterling & Peggy Seagrave
Publisher: Verso
Language: English
ISBN: 1844675319
EAN: 9781844675319
No. of Pages: 365

Drawing on a vast range of original documents and thousands of hours of interviews, "Gold Warriors" exposes one of the great state secrets of the 20th century--a cache of Japanese gold found in the Philippines during World War II.

In 1945, US intelligence officers in manila discovered that the Japanese had hidden large quantities of gold bullion and other looted treasure in the Philippines. President Truman decided to recover the gold but to keep its riches secret. These would be combined with treasure recovered inside Japan during the US occupation, and with Nazi loot recovered in Europe, to create a worldwide American political action fund to fight communism.

Overseen by General MacArthur, President Truman and John Foster Dulles, this "Black Gold" gave Washington virtually limitless, unaccountable funds, providing an asset base to reinforce the treasuries of America's allies, to bribe political and military leaders, and to manipulate elections in foreign countries for more than fifty years. Drawing on a vast range of original documents and thousands of hours of interviews, "Gold Warriors" exposes one of the great state secrets of the twentieth century.
In Search of Gold
by Tomas Cyran
253 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #05-1098; ISBN 1-4120-6197-0; US$24.00

This book describes the adventures of a true-life Australian Indiana Jones, and his adventures in the Philippines searching for and recovering the Japanese war loot commonly known as Yamashita's Treasure.