Treasure Lost at Sea - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Treasure Lost at Sea write by Robert F. Marx. This book was released on 2004. Treasure Lost at Sea available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The vast hidden world of sunken treasure. With less than 2% of the world's ocean depths explored to date, a myriad of unimagined mysteries and treasures await discovery. Treasure Lost at Sea chronicles the excitement of underwater archaeology and search for treasure. The book recounts the major periods and geographic locations of shipwrecks. Chapters include: The classical world Scandinavian shipwrecks The age of discovery The Spanish galleons Bermuda, graveyard of ships Privateers, pirates and mutineers Deep-water shipwrecks (Bismarck, Titanic, and others) Port Royal: The sunken city The lively text details the potential treasure as well as the political turf wars, technological limitations, and forces of nature that threaten any mission's success. Humanity's long history of exploration, civilization, trade and war is littered with sunken vessels. Colorful and richly illustrated, Treasure Lost at Sea will inspire a new generation of underwater archaeologists.
Shipwreck
Shipwreck - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shipwreck write by Dave Horner. This book was released on 2021-11-01. Shipwreck available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Based on the exceptional and fascinating eyewitness account of a seventeenth-century Spanish padre, Dave Horner's Shipwreck is the absorbing and true story of two immense galleons that were lost (along with hundreds of passengers and millions of pesos in treasure) to disasters at sea. Shipwreck is an extraordinary literary adventure which interweaves accounts of the many attempts throughout the past three centuries to recover the sunken treasure, including the recent discovery and salvage of one of the galleons by Dave Horner himself. Shipwreck is an outstanding history of true adventure on the high seas, past and present, which is wonderfully enhanced for the reader with 50 photographic illustrations, six maps, four line drawings, seven appendices, as well as bibliographies of archival sources, institutions, original documents or primary works, and a general listing of thematically appropriate titles for further suggested readings.
America's Lost Treasure
America's Lost Treasure - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook America's Lost Treasure write by Tommy Thompson. This book was released on 1998. America's Lost Treasure available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In more than 250 photographs, drawings, and illustrations, "America's Lost Treasure" chronicles the sinking and recovery of the "Central America", the subject of "The New York Times" bestseller "Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea".
Treasure Lost at Sea
Treasure Lost at Sea - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Treasure Lost at Sea write by Lisa Rao. This book was released on 2002. Treasure Lost at Sea available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea
Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea write by Gary Kinder. This book was released on 2009-10-20. Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Titanic meets Tom Clancy technology” in this national-bestselling account of the SS Central America’s wreckage and discovery (People). September 1875. With nearly six hundred passengers returning from the California Gold Rush, the side-wheel steamer SS Central America encountered a violent storm and sank two hundred miles off the Carolina coast. More than four hundred lives and twenty-one tons of gold were lost. It was a tragedy lost in legend for more than a century—until a brilliant young engineer named Tommy Thompson set out to find the wreck. Driven by scientific curiosity and resentful of the term “treasure hunt,” Thompson searched the deep-ocean floor using historical accounts, cutting-edge sonar technology, and an underwater robot of his own design. Navigating greedy investors, impatient crewmembers, and a competing salvage team, Thompson finally located the wreck in 1989 and sailed into Norfolk with her recovered treasure: gold coins, bars, nuggets, and dust, plus steamer trunks filled with period clothes, newspapers, books, and journals. A great American adventure story, Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea is also a fascinating account of the science, technology, and engineering that opened Earth’s final frontier, providing “white-knuckle reading, as exciting as anything . . . in The Perfect Storm” (Los Angeles Times Book Review). “A complex, bittersweet history of two centuries of American entrepreneurship, linked by the mad quest for gold.” —Entertainment Weekly “A ripping true tale of danger and discovery at sea.” —The Washington Post “What a yarn! . . . If you sign on for the cruise, go in knowing that you’re going to miss meals and a lot of sleep.” —Newsweek
