- Fiction, Dirk Pitt (Fictitious character), Geographical myths, Lost continents
An Antarctic whaler stumbles across an aged wreck—her frozen crew guarding a priceless treasure.
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Epic, classical in form, unpretentious and earnest.
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Clive Cussler
- First published
- 1999
- Pages
- 544
- Publisher
- Tandem Library, Penguin Books, Limited, Putnam Pub Group (a)
- Editions
- 31
- Language
- Polish, Spanish, Dutch, English
- ISBN
- 9782253173014
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“THE WANING STARS IN the early-morning sky blazed like a theater marquee when seen from 9,000 feet above sea level.”
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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