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Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea

Door Gary Kinder

Categorie
Schepen & Scheepvaart
Boeknummer
#345519-XI22
Titel
Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea
Auteur
Kinder, Gary
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
New York : The Atlantic Monthly Press
Jaar van uitgave
1998
ISBN10
0871134640
ISBN13
9780871134646
Taal
Nederlands
Beschrijving
Original blueboards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, a few b/w illustrations, 8vo.
Samenvatting
In 1857, the SS Central America, a side-wheel steamer carrying nearly six hundred passengers returning from the California Gold Rush, foundered in a hurricane and sank off the Carolina coast. Over four hundred lives and twenty-one tons of gold were lost. In the 1980s, a young engineer from Ohio set out to do what no one, not even the U. S. Navy, had been able to do: establish a working presence on the deep-ocean floor and open it to scientific discovery. After years of intensive effort, Tommy Thompson and the Columbus-America Discovery Group found the Central-America in eight thousand feet of water, and in October of 1989 they sailed into Norfolk with her recovered treasure. Here is the story of both the victims and heroes of the disaster, and the visionary team that opened Earth's last fr... (Lees verder)ontier.
Pagina's
507
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 10,00

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