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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $15.60
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Manufacturer: Pelican Publishing Company
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Jerry O. Potter
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Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.771
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Publication Date: 1992-04
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Reading Level: 272
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Description: "Lee Surrenders!" "President Murdered!" "Booth Killed!" screamed the headlines of American newspapers in April 1865, leaving little room for mention of a maritime disaster that to this day stands as America's worst. On April 27, 1865, the Sultana, a wooden-hulled steamboat carrying six times the legal capacity, exploded on the Mississippi River, killing more than 1,800 men. Here is the little-known story.
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Price: $30.00
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Sale: $9.95
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Manufacturer: National Geographic
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Robert D. Ballard::Michael Sweeney
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Publisher: National Geographic
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Dewey Decimal Number: 910.91634
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Publication Date: 2004-11-01
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Reading Level: 192
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Description: Almost twenty years after making the world's most famous underwater discovery, Robert Ballard returns to Titanic with hi-tech cameras and robots to provide the clearest, most dramatic images ever seen. Ballard documents what has become of the world's best-known ship, torn apart by salvagers over the last 2 decades, and pronounces a new and vital conservation ethos - that future such wrecks must be preserved as historical monuments. This compelling, illustrated book is a journey back in time to the tragic sinking of the Titanic in 1912; a hard look at the present salvaging and natural deterioration of the wreck; and a blueprint for future conservation of this icon. Says Ballard, "every possible book has been written on the Titanic, and Titanic addicts have them all. They will not have this." RETURN TO TITANIC brings new dimension, visually and factually. First, the incomparable hi-tech cameras Ballard created to document wrecks on the Mediterranean seafloor in summer 2003 will be used to reveal the changes in Titanic since the first images were made by National Geographic in 1985. Second, he will analyze the salvaging of the wreck by private groups, as well as the natural deterioration since 1985; finally he will establish the global conservation ethos that this and other wrecks be revered as "pyramids of the deep," rather than ransacked. TITANIC has 5 chapters in 192 pages, with 125 images, diagrams, and maps. Images will include period pictures and drawings from the early 1900s, pictures of the 1985 discovery of the wreck, and modern images, culminating in the hi-tech images of the June 2004 expedition. Sweeney's deft hand combines with Ballard's own intriguing story of discovery, his masterminding of robots and hi-definition cameras to document the wreck, and his commitment to conservation in the 21st century. The human element plays a big part in RETURN TO TITANIC, as Ballard and Sweeney clarify that technology and conservation are but means to preserving the spirits of the humans lost in the tragedy. Sidebars throughout, identify the artifacts of survivors, such as letters, watches, clothing, and tell their stories.
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Price: $18.00
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Sale: $11.22
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Manufacturer: Morgan James Publishing
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Pierette Simpson
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Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
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Dewey Decimal Number: 995
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Publication Date: 2008-08-01
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Reading Level: 312
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Description: One half-century later, the catastrophic ramming of the MS Stockholm into the Italian luxury liner the SS Andrea Doria in 1956 is relived in this candid, heartrending account. Author Pierette Domenica Simpson, who, with her grandparents, survived the tragedy off the shoals of Nantucket, shares the human and technical aspects of what has become known as the greatest sea rescue in history. As only an eyewitness can do, the author presents survivors' recollections in dramatic vignettes that meticulously re-create a horrific event-one that could have been another Titanic. Both poor immigrants and wealthy travelers give their accounts of ultimate despair and infinite elation after staring at their own reflections in the black ocean that night and seeing death stare back. Equally dramatic are the revelations of new facts exposed by nautical experts from two continents facts that solve the "mystery" of who was to blame for this most improbable collision between two ships on the open seas.
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Price: $35.00
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Sale: $20.90
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Manufacturer: The Johns Hopkins University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Carla Rahn Phillips
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Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 940.2526
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Publication Date: 2007-05-31
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Reading Level: 280
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Description: Sunk in a British ambush in 1708, the Spanish galleon San José was rumored to have one of the richest cargos ever lost at sea. Though treasure hunters have searched for the wreck's legendary bounty, no one knows exactly how much went down with the ship or exactly where it sank. Here, Carla Rahn Phillips confronts the legend of lost treasure with documentary records of the San José's final voyage and suggests that the loss of silver and gold en route to Spain paled in comparison to the loss of the six hundred men who went down with the ship. Drawing from rich archival records, Phillips presents a biography of the ship and its crew. With vivid detail and meticulous scholarship, the author tells the stories of the officers, sailors, apprentices, and pages who manned the ship and explains the historical context in which the San José became prey to the British squadron. But the story does not end with the sinking of the San José. While Phillips addresses the persistent question of how much treasure was on board when the ship went down, she focuses on the human dimensions of the tragedy as well. She recovers the accounts of British naval officers involved in the battle, and examines the impact of the ship's loss on the Spanish government, the survivors, and the families of the men who perished. Original, comprehensive, and compelling, The Treasure of the San José separates popular myth from history and sheds light on the human lives associated with a "treasure" ship.
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Manufacturer: Hyperion Books (Adult Trd Pap)
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Robert D. Ballard::Rick Archbold::Ken Marschall
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Publisher: Hyperion Books (Adult Trd Pap)
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Dewey Decimal Number: 910.452
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Publication Date: 1998-10
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Reading Level: 224
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Description: From the team who created "Titanic: An illustrated History", here is a beautifully illustrated look at the magnificent ships lost beneath the sea. 400 photos and illustrations.
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Price: $21.95
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Sale: $9.99
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Manufacturer: Basic Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Alfred Lansing
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Publisher: Basic Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 910.45
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Publication Date: 2001-02-27
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Reading Level: 288
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Description: In December 1914 Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of twenty-seven men set sail from South Georgia for the South Pole aboard the Endurance, the object of their expedition to cross Antarctica overland. A month later the ship was beset in the ice of the Weddell Sea, just outside the Antarctic Circle. Temperatures dropped to 35 degrees Celsius below zero. Ice-moored, the Endurance drifted northwest for ten months before it was finally crushed. The ordeal, however, had barely begun. Now illustrated with expedition photographer Frank Hurley's breathtaking images of the crew, the wildlife, the stark beauty of the land and terrors of the sea at every stage of this grueling adventure, Alfred Lansing's already compelling narrative assumes even more staggering dramatic power in its depiction of the heroic endurance of Shackleton and his twenty-seven indefatigably courageous men.
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Price: $9.99
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Sale: $6.98
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Manufacturer: Olive Press (SC)
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Moody Adams
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Publisher: Olive Press (SC)
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Dewey Decimal Number: 920
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Publication Date: 1997-12
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Reading Level: 158
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Description: As the dark, freezing waters of the Atlantic crept slowly up the decks of the Titanic, John Harper shouted, "Let the women, children, and the unsaved into the lifeboats." Harper took his lifejacket--the final hope of survival--and gave it to another man. After the ship had disppeared beneath the water, leaving Harper floundering in the icy waters, he was heard urging those about him to put their faith in Jesus Christ. It was the night of April 14, 1912, a night for heroes, and John Harper met the challenge. Though the waters swallowing him were bitterly cold and the sea about him was dark, John Harper left this world in a blaze of glory.
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $12.56
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Manufacturer: Tidewater Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Donald G. Shomette
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Publisher: Tidewater Publishers
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Publication Date: 2007-09
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Reading Level: 324
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $8.90
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Manufacturer: Pineapple Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Kevin McCarthy
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Publisher: Pineapple Press
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 363.1230916348
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Publication Date: 1992-04
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Reading Level: 128
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Description: Stories of thirty of the most interesting of the thousands of Florida shipwrecks. Each shipwreck story has a map pinpointing its location and a full-color painting by renowned artist William Trotter.
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Price: $15.95
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Sale: $7.31
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Manufacturer: Citadel
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Dennis M. Powers
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Publisher: Citadel
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Dewey Decimal Number: 900
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Publication Date: 2007-09-01
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Reading Level: 288
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