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Describes the many-years-long search for the treasure that went down with the Atocha a Spanish galleon sunk off Florida in a hurricane in 1622. Includes facts about four other famous shipwrecks. Gail Gibbons writes about an ancient Spanish galleon the Atocha describing the sinking; the search; the find; and the preservation cataloguing and eventual distribution of the treasure. She also devotes a page each to other famous treasure hunts. Handsomely designed and easily accessible. --H. A Reading Rainbow Featured Selection Children s Choices for 1989 (IRA/CBC).