- New York Times bestseller, Marine biologists, Marine engineers, Fiction
In A.D. 327, a Roman galley barely escapes a pirate attack with its extraordinary cargo. In 1916, a British warship mysteriously explodes in the middle of the North Sea. In the present day, a cluster of important mosques in Turkey and Egypt are wracked by explosions.
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Epic, unpretentious, classical in form and grave.
- intimateepic
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Clive Cussler, Dirk Cussler
- First published
- 1898
- Pages
- 548
- Publisher
- Blanvalet Taschenbuchverl, G. P. Putnam's Sons, Penguin Audio
- Editions
- 20
- Language
- Polish, English, German, French
- ISBN
- 9780399157141
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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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