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Wheeler Large Print Book Ser.: Sea Hunters : True Adventures with Famous Shipwrecks by Craig Dirgo and Clive Cussler (1997, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherCengage GALE

ISBN-101568954077

ISBN-139781568954073

eBay Product ID (ePID)304905

Product Key Features

Number of Pages468 Pages

Publication NameSea Hunters : True Adventures with Famous Shipwrecks

LanguageEnglish

SubjectArchaeology, Ships & Shipbuilding / History

Publication Year1997

FeaturesLarge Type

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaTransportation, Social Science

AuthorCraig Dirgo, Clive Cussler

SeriesWheeler Large Print Book Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Weight26.4 Oz

Item Length9.4 in

Item Width6.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN96-049136

Dewey Edition21

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Decimal930.1/028/04

Edition DescriptionLarge Type / large print edition

SynopsisIn The Sea Hunters, his first nonfiction book, Cussler explores the special world of undersea adventure that inspired and has its fictional parallel in the Dirk Pitt novels. He describes his lifelong love for the sea and ships, and how his involvement with the search for John Paul Jones's famous Revolutionary War ship, the Bonhomme Richard, led to his establishing the NUMA (National Underwater and Marine Agency) Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the discovery and preservation of historic shipwrecks. From the more than sixty shipwrecks Cussler and his NUMA volunteers have found, he has chosen the twelve most interesting, whether because of the ship's history, the circumstances of its sinking, or the trouble, frustration, and peril that were encountered while trying to find the sunken wreck. With the same wonderful storytelling that Cussler brings to his novels, he describes his searches for such ships as the Union 24-gun frigate Cumberland, sunk during the Civil War by the Confederate ironclad CSS Virginia (formerly the Merrimack); the Confederate Hunley, which became the first submarine in history to sink a warship; the U-21, a German U-boat, which during World War I became the first sub to sink a warship and escape; and the American troop transport Leopoldville, which was destroyed by a German submarine on Christmas Eve, 1944, with huge loss of life; as well as Engine #51, the lost locomotive of Kiowa Creek, which roared off a storm-weakened high bridge in 1878. The wrecks date as far back as 1840 and span the continental United States, the Atlantic Ocean, and the North Sea.

LC Classification NumberG525.C965 1997