Screen LibraryShip of gold in the deep blue sea
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Vintage Books,
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| Publisher Address: | New York |
| Publication Dates: | 1999 ,c1998. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xvi, 528 p.: ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: |
0375703373 (pbk.) 9780375703379 (pbk.) 9780375705946 0375705945 |
| Index Number: | I712 |
| CLC: | I712.55 |
| Call Number: | I712.55/K515 |
| Contents: |
Prologue -- Ship of Gold -- Tommy -- Deep Blue Sea -- Epilogue -- Index. In one of the most exciting adventure stories of our time, Gary Kinder combines maritime disaster with visionary underwater technology. In September 1857, the SS Central America, a side-wheel steamer carrying passengers returning from the gold fields of California, went down during a hurricane off the Carolina coast. It would be the worst peacetime disaster at sea in American history, claiming more than 400 lives and 21 tons of gold. In the 1980s a maverick engineer named Tommy Thompson set out to find the wreck of the Central America and salvage its treasure from the ocean floor. |