- Underwater archaeology, Underwater exploration, Shipwrecks, British Portrait painting
From the author of the #1 bestselling The Sea Hunters comes more unforgettable true adventures with famous shipwrecks.
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- Author
- Clive Cussler
- First published
- 2002
- Pages
- 423
- Publisher
- Penguin USA, Inc., Putnam Berkley Audio, Putnam Adult
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- Dutch, English
- ISBN
- 9780399149504
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“"THE FOOL!" RENE-ROBERT CAVELIER DE LA SALLE shouted as he stood helpless on the desolate shore and watched his flagship, L'Aimable, veer out of the buoyed channel toward what he knew was certain destruction.”
Cussler began writing novels in 1965 and published his first work featuring his continuous series hero, Dirk Pitt, in 1973. His first non-fiction, The Sea Hunters, was released in 1996. The Board of Governors of the Maritime College, State University of New York, considered The Sea Hunters in lieu of a Ph.D. thesis and awarded Cussler a Doctor of Letters degree in May, 1997. It was the first time since the College was founded in 1874 that such a degree was bestowed. Cussler is an internationally recognized authority on shipwrecks and the founder of the National Underwater and Marine Agency, (NUMA) a 501C3 non-profit organization (named after the fictional Federal agency in his novels) that d
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