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Titanic's Last Secrets: The Further Adventures of Shadow Divers John Chatterton and Richie Kohler
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Include books by the same authorExploring the Titanic: How the Greatest Ship Ever Lost—Was Found
Robert D. Ballard · 64 pages
Describes the large luxury liner which sank in 1912 and the discovery and exploration of its underwater wreckage.
The Sea Hunters II
Clive Cussler, Craig Dirgo · 446 pages
From the author of the #1 bestselling The Sea Hunters comes more unforgettable true adventures with famous shipwrecks.
Shadow Divers
Robert Kurson · 405 pages
In the tradition of Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air and Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm comes a true tale of riveting adventure in which two weekend scuba divers risk everything to solve a great historical mystery--and make history themselves.For John Chatterton and Richie Kohler, deep wreck diving was more than a sport. Testing themselves against treacherous currents, braving depths that induce
The Last Fish Tale: The Fate of the Atlantic & Survival in Gloucester, America's Oldest Fishing Port & Most Original Town
Mark Kurlansky · 304 pages
The bestselling author of Cod, Salt, and The Big Oyster has enthralled readers with his incisive blend of culinary, cultural, and social history. Now, in his most colorful, personal, and important book to date, Mark Kurlansky turns his attention to a disappearing way of life: fishing--how it has thrived in and defined one particular town for centuries, and what its imperiled future means for the r
Titanic Survivor: The Newly Discovered Memoirs of Violet Jessop Who Survived Both the Titanic and Britannic Disasters
Violet Jessop, John Maxtone-Graham · 238 pages
"Violet Jessop was probably the only rescued person with a toothbrush after the Britannic struck a mine and sank. But then she had been on the Titanic four years earlier and remembered what she had missed...". "In 1934, she wrote her memoirs. After a childhood in Argentina and formative years in England, she became a stewardees aboard a variety of passenger ships. She was there when Titanic sides
The Loss of the S.S. Titanic
Lawrence Beesley · 125 pages
The circumstances in which this book came to be written are as follows. Some five weeks after the survivors from the Titanic landed in New York, I was the guest at luncheon of Hon. Samuel J. Elder and Hon. Charles T. Gallagher, both well-known lawyers in Boston. After luncheon I was asked to relate to those present the experiences of the survivors in leaving the Titanic and reaching the Carpathia.
The Fleet at Flood Tide: America at Total War in the Pacific, 1944-1945
James D. Hornfischer · 621 pages
"Timed to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, here is an unprecedented account of the extraordinary World War II air, land, and sea campaign that brought the U.S. Navy to the apex of its strength and marked the rise of the United States as a global superpower,"--Amazon.com.
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
Tony Horwitz · 496 pages
"James Cook's three epic journeys in the eighteenth century were the last great voyages of discovery. When he embarked for the Pacific in 1768, a third of the globe remained blank. By the time he died in 1779, during a bloody clash in Hawaii, the map of the world was substantially complete. Cook explored more of the earth's surface than anyone in history - sailing from the Arctic to the Antarct
Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers
Simon Winchester · 492 pages
The New York Times best-selling author of The Men Who United the States traces the geological history of the Pacific Ocean to assess its relationship with humans and indelible role in the modern world.
The Price Of Admiralty: The Evolution Of Naval Warfare
John Keegan · 352 pages
The Terrible Hours: The Greatest Submarine Rescue in History
Peter Maas · 272 pages
"On the eve of World War II, America's newest submarine plunged helplessly to the North Atlantic bottom during a test dive. Miraculously, thirty-three crew members still survived. While their wives and girlfriends waited in nearly unbearable tension on shore, their ultimate fate would depend on one man."--BOOK JACKET. "In this thrilling true narrative of terror, heroism and courage in the depths
The War Below: The Story of Three Submarines That Battled Japan
James Scott · 437 pages
The "story of the submarine force that helped win World War II in the Pacific by ravaging Japan's merchant fleet and destroying the nation's economy. Focusing on the unique stories of three of the wars top submarines--Silversides, Drum, and Tang--[the author] takes readers beneath the waves to experience the determination, heroism, and tragedy that defined the submarine service"--Dust jacket flap.
882 1/2 Amazing Answers to Your Questions About the Titanic
Hugh Brewster, Laurie Coulter · 96 pages
Questions and answers present information about the building, passengers, launching, sailing, sinking, and rediscovery of the Titanic. Includes illustrations, archival images, and step-by-step diagrams.
Nelson's Trafalgar: The Battle That Changed the World
Roy A. Adkins · 416 pages
In the Land of White Death: An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic
Valerian Albanov · 285 pages
Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942
Ian W. Toll · 656 pages
On the first Sunday in December 1941, an armada of Japanese warplanes appeared suddenly over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and devastated the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Six months later, in a sea fight north of the tiny atoll of Midway, four Japanese aircraft carriers were sent into the abyss, a blow that destroyed the offensive power of their fleet. Pacific Crucible—through a dramatic narrative relying predomin
The Ice Master
Jennifer Niven · 402 pages
It was to be the greatest and most elaborate Arctic expedition in history, with the largest scientific staff ever taken on such a journey. It's leader, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, was celebrated for his studies of Eskimo life and, with this mission, hoped to find evidence that proved his staunchly held belief that there was a last unexplored continent, hidden beneath the vast polar ice cap. In June 191
Shadow of the Titanic: The Extraordinary Stories of Those Who Survived. by Andrew Wilson
Andrew Wilson · 391 pages
1,500 men, women and children struggled to stay alive in the freezing Atlantic, the sea was alive with the sound of screaming . Then as the ship sank to the ocean floor and the passengers slowly died from hypothermia, a deathly silence settled over the sea. Yet the echoes of that night reverberated through the lives of each of the 705 survivors.
Batavia
Peter FitzSimons · 490 pages
The Shipwreck of the Batavia combines the birth of the world's first corporation, the brutality of colonisation, the battle of good vs evil, the derring-do of sea-faring adventure, mutiny, ship-wreck, love, lust, blood-lust, petty fascist dictatorship, criminality, a reign of terror, murders most foul, sexual slavery, natural nobility, survival, retribution, rescue, first contact with native peopl
The Band That Played On: The Extraordinary Story of the 8 Musicians Who Went Down with the Titanic
Steve Turner
The Twilight Warriors: The Deadliest Naval Battle of World War II and the Men Who Fought It
Robert Gandt · 385 pages
Band of Brothers at sea and in the skies, 340 miles off the coast of Japan. The Twilight Warriors is the engrossing, page-turning saga of a tightly knit band of naval aviators who are thrust into the final -- and most brutal -- battle of the Pacific war: Okinawa. April 1945. The end of World War II finally appears to be nearing. The Third Reich is collapsing in Europe, and the Americans are overpo
Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
Joan Druett · 284 pages
Telling the true story of two similar shipwreck tragedies that have drastically different outcomes, award-winning maritime historian Druett tells a gripping cautionary tale about leadership, endurance, human ingenuity, and the tenuous line between order and chaos.
Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentleman Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail
Stephen R. Bown · 255 pages