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SHIP OF GOLD IN THE DEEP BLUE SEA Adventure Heroism

WHITE-KNUCKLE READING~INTRIGUE HIGH TECHNOLOGY, HEROISM

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Item number:120394170349
Item location:Stark County, Ohio, United States
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Author: Gary KinderPublisher: Vintage Books
ISBN-10: 0375703373Category: Biography & Memoir
ISBN-13: 9780375703379 SEA DISASTER
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Publication Year: 1999Condition: Good
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In September 1857, the SS "Central America" sank 200 miles off the Carolina coast, taking tons of California gold to the bottom of the Atlantic. In 1989, a salvage crew led by Tommy Thompson rescued much of the treasure, using a combination of oceanography, computer science, and information theory, in what has been described as the greatest treasure recovery of all time.

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Height:7.8 in.
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Weight:16.0 oz.

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With nail-biting suspense, Kinder reconstructs the terror of the 19th-century steamer "Central America's" last days and chronicles the oceanographic quest for the lost vessel.

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"'Ship of Gold' is a marvelous tale, with generous portions of history, adventure, intrigue, heroism and high technology interwoven. Shipwrecks make for enthralling reading; adventure stories have been a mainstay of literature since 'The Odyssey'; tales of individual heroism ditto; and Gary Kinder can join Jules Verne, Bob Ballard and Tom Clancy in making underwater technology thrilling."
Los Angeles Times Book Review - Richard Ellis (05/31/1998)

"Sounds like a great book--peril and death at sea, coupled with a detective story in which a colorful American finds a way to recover a king's ransom from the ocean floor. Alas, 'Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea' is not a great book....The main trouble is that...[the book] is a paradox: a once-over-lightly treatment that goes on, and on....[T]he book is twice as long and only half as good as it ought to be."
San Francisco Chronicle Book Review - Carl Nolte (06/28/1998)

"...Kinder conns his literary vessel admirably, in fluent command of fascinating detail, judicial ramifications and a disparate crew....[T]he author writes beautifully--historical and technological reporting of a high order, as suspenseful and deft about the doomed steamer as the salvage vessels. 'Ship of Gold...' is a 24-carat sea classic."
New York Times Book Review - John Maxtone-Graham (07/12/1998)

"Though the story it tells is very much a testament to Tommy Thompson's pioneering work in deep-ocean recovery, 'Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea' is, at its heart, an old-fashioned seafaring adventure, awash in brine and vigor."
Washington Post Book World - Jennifer Howard (08/30/1998)


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   SHIP OF GOLD (In The Deep Blue Sea) by Gary Kinder is a 536-page softcover book in good condition. Cover has slight shelfwear and edge rubbing. Contents are clean and tightly bound. Pages have light browning on edges. First Vintage Books Edition, June 1999. Original price is $14.00.

   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. The disaster claimed 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.

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