Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea
by Kinder, Gary
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0316647144
- ISBN 13
- 9780316647144
- Seller
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Lancaster, Lancashire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Little, Brown & Co, 1998. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. An extraordinary tale of history, maritime drama, heroic rescue, scientific ingenuity and individual courage, recounting death, danger and discovery on the high seas in the search for lost treasure. In September 1857 the side-wheel steamer SS Central America sank in a hurricane two-hundred miles off the Carolina coast. She had been carrying 500 passengers, many of them returning with their spoils from the California Gold Rush. This fortune in gold lay undisturbed until ocean engineer Tommy Thompson finally succeeded in recovering it in 1989. Along the way the group he brought together established mankind's first real working presence on the deep ocean floor, overcoming many technical and other obstacles in the process. This is the full story of that recovery - dubbed by 'Life' magazine as 'the greatest treasure ever found'. Contains 507 pages. Ex-library, front endpaper removed, some library markings. Blue cloth boards in very good illustrated dust jacket. Internally, good: clean, bright and unmarked in sound bindings.
Synopsis
Gary Kinder is the author of the best-selling books Victim and Light Years . He began researching this story in 1987 and was aboard the Arctic Discoverer in 1989, when Thompson announced his find to the public. Gary Kinder lives in Seattle with his wife and two daughters. He teaches advanced writing seminars to lawyers across the country.
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- Seller
- William Robertson (GB)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 01797
- Title
- Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea
- Author
- Kinder, Gary
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First UK Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0316647144
- ISBN 13
- 9780316647144
- Publisher
- Little, Brown & Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- Maritime Nautical Ships Sea Naval Salvage Diving Treasure Recovery Ships Shipwrecks SS Central America
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- TRANSPORTATION / Ships & Shipbuilding / History;
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