Charter Books and the Newport Historical Society will host New York Times bestselling author Julian Sancton for a discussion of his newly released book, “Neptune’s Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire,” on Sunday, March 29, from 5 to 6 p.m.
The event at Charter Books, 8 Broadway, is free and open to the public. An RSVP is requested at charterbookstore.com/events. A Q&A and book signing will follow the discussion.
Published Feb. 24, “Neptune’s Fortune” tells the true story of Roger Dooley, an unlikely treasure hunter whose accidental discovery in a Spanish archive in the 1980s set him on a decades-long obsession to locate the San Jose — a Spanish galleon that sank off the coast of Colombia nearly three centuries ago carrying more than $1 billion in gold and silver.
Sancton is also the author of “Madhouse at the End of the Earth” and a senior features editor at Departures magazine. His work has appeared in Vanity Fair, Esquire, The New Yorker and Wired, among other publications.
Charter Books, founded in 2020, is an independent bookstore at 8 Broadway in Newport. Store hours are Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. For more information, visit charterbookstore.com.