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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the Sea Hunters, his first nonfiction book, Cussler explorers 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 Bonhome Richard, led to his establishing the NUMA (National Underwater and Marine Agency) Foundation, a nonprofit organization...
3) The Sea remembers: shipwrecks and archaeology from Homer's Greece to the rediscovery of the Titanic
Publisher
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Pub. Date
c1987
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
240 p. ; 30 cm.
Language
English
5) Shipwreck
Series
Publisher
Backpack Books
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
31 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Find out how a ship came to be a wreck at the bottom of the sea. Using the thumb index, you can whiz through time--minutes, days, years, or sometimes even centuries--from one page to the next. It's an exciting trip! You can adminre the ship in full sail bound for Spain, then witness its capture and sinking by a band of pirates. Now fast forward to centuries later and watch divers discovering the wreck.
Author
Language
English
Description
A renowned marine biologist presents this extraordinary firsthand account of the discovery of Ernest Shackleton's Endurance--a century to the day after Shackleton's death--that captures the intrepid spirit that joins two mariners across the centuries, both of whom accomplished the impossible.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
64 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 23 x 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
An exploration of two strikingly different shipwrecks. For those who know how to interpret its secrets, a sunken ship has many tales to tell. The stories of the lives of those aboard its last voyage are revealed in the objects scattered around the shipwreck. Then there are the stories of the many ocean creatures that have found a home inside the broken hull. Two shipwrecks, separated by two thousand miles and two centuries, share a common history...
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
1998.
Physical Desc
493 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Encyclopedia of Underwater and Maritime Archaeology is the first comprehensive reference book on the discovery and recovery of the submerged past." "Written by archaeologists and other scientists who have made the discoveries, the encyclopedia's entries describe sites around the world and across time: prehistoric American Indian settlements; submerged Bronze and Iron Age settlements; sunken Phoenician, Greek, and Roman cities and harbors; Viking...
Author
Publisher
RAM Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
xxiv, 420 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps (some col.) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A culmination of more than 50 years of experience and research covering all known shipwrecks of both the Old World and New World whose cargoes contained at least $10 million worth of treasures. Contains many maps collected by Marx and more than 100 photos of shipwrecks treasures and diving salvage operations.
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
x, 769 p., [40] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.), maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
From Graham Hancock, bestselling author of Fingerprints of the Gods, comes a mesmerizing book that takes us on a captivating underwater voyage to find the ruins of a lost civilization that's been hidden for thousands of years beneath the world's oceans. While Graham Hancock is no stranger to stirring up heated controversy among scientific experts, his books and television documentaries have intrigued millions of people around the world and influenced...
Author
Publisher
Scribner's
Pub. Date
c1988
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
54 p. : col. ill. ; 21 x 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explores the field of marine archaeology, describing how scientists locate, explore, excavate, and preserve ancient shipwrecks, the dangers involved, and the historical and cultural significance of such finds.
Author
Publisher
Astra Young Readers, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
144 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Shipwrecked! is an adventure-filled nonfiction book for young readers about the most captivating shipwrecks from history. Combining new research, stunning archival material, and vivid storytelling, Shipwrecked! dives deep into the world of marine archaeology and shows young readers what each discovery reveals about the world before our time"--
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