The Treasure of the Great Reef

by Arthur C. Clarke, Mike Wilson (Illustrator)

It was one of the unforgettable moments of a lifetime, for I knew that I was staring at something that very few men have seen-genuine, honest-to-goodness treasure. These unimpressive-looking lumps were masses of coins-hundreds of them, cemented together!" Famous science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke and his partner, Mike Wilson, tell the true, exciting story of how they recovered treasure lost in the sea for more than 250 years.

Genres: Nonfiction

233 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1964

About the author

Stories, works of noted British writer, scientist, and underwater explorer Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, include 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).

This most important and influential figure in 20th century fiction spent the first half of his life in England and served in World War II as a radar operator before migrating to Ceylon in 1956. He co-created his best known novel and movie with the assistance of Stanley Kubrick.

Clarke, a graduate of King's College, London, obtained first class honours in physics and mathematics. He served as past chairman of the interplanetary society and as a member of the academy of astronautics, the royal astronomical society, and many other organizations.

He authored more than fifty books and won his numerous awards: the Kalinga prize of 1961, the American association for the advancement Westinghouse prize, the Bradford Washburn award, and the John W. Campbell award for his novel Rendezvous with Rama. Clarke also won the nebula award of the fiction of America in 1972, 1974 and 1979, the Hugo award of the world fiction convention in 1974 and 1980. In 1986, he stood as grand master of the fiction of America. The queen knighted him as the commander of the British Empire in 1989.

Reviews

[GIMHANA SANKALPA · Rating 5 out of 5]

There is a good book I had read.

[David Corleto-Bales · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a beautiful, old book, written in a journalistic style by the great Arthur C. Clarke, who was an avid skin and scuba diver. He lived in Sri Lanka, (Ceylon back in the day) for over 50 years, and one expedition he took with a fellow scuba enthusiast and two young teenagers from the U.S. mission to the country in 1960 to a dangerous and difficult to reach reef found a shipwreck in which contained a fortune in silver coins. The wreck was from the early eighteenth century and was full of treasure from Moghul India. Clarke's descriptions of the undersea world and of Ceylon in the early-1960s is a throwback to the "adventure" books that are so uncommon today. The world seemed less spoiled in 1961, and the horizons more open.

[Falcinella Alessio]

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[Mark · Rating 5 out of 5]

AMAZING!!!

[Dehemi Fabio · Rating 1 out of 5]

A Book that is very unexciting.