Sea hunters : true adventures with famous shipwrecks
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Location | Call Number | Note | Status |
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Canon City Public Library - FICTION | F CUSSLER | On Shelf | |
Dolores Public Library - NONFICTION | HISTORY 930.1 CUSSLER | On Shelf | |
Fowler Public Library - NONFICTION | 910.4 Cussler | On Shelf | |
Heginbotham Holyoke Library - NONFICTION | 930.1CUS | On Shelf | |
Julesburg Public Library - NONFICTION | 910.4 Cus | On Shelf |
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Book
Physical Desc
364 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Notes
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Includes index.
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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 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 ships' 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 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.
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Accelerated Reader AR,UG,8.2,19.0,20637.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Cussler, C., & Dirgo, C. (1996). Sea hunters: true adventures with famous shipwrecks . Simon & Schuster.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Cussler, Clive and Craig. Dirgo. 1996. Sea Hunters: True Adventures With Famous Shipwrecks. Simon & Schuster.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Cussler, Clive and Craig. Dirgo. Sea Hunters: True Adventures With Famous Shipwrecks Simon & Schuster, 1996.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Cussler, Clive., and Craig Dirgo. Sea Hunters: True Adventures With Famous Shipwrecks Simon & Schuster, 1996.
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