- Underwater archaeology, Open Library Staff Picks, Personal Beauty, Shipwrecks
A steamboat goes up in flames...and down to the bottom of the sea. A locomotive plunges into a creek...and vanishes into mystery. A German U-boat sends an American troop transport, and eight hundred on board, to a watery grave...on Christmas Eve.
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Earnest, grave, plot-driven and resolved.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- resolvedopen-ended
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Clive Cussler, Craig Dirgo
- First published
- 1996
- Pages
- 396
- Publisher
- TEA Tascabili Editori Associati, DEBOLSILLO, Wheeler Pub.
- Editions
- 18
- Language
- English, tur, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9788878185968
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“It's said that Jules Verne wrote Around the World in Eighty Days without ever leaving Paris.”
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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