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Ship of Gold:
In the Deep Blue Sea

Gary Kinder

Author Gary Kinder in national bestseller Ship of Gold: In the Deep Blue Sea reconstructs, with nail-biting suspense, the terror of the Central America’s last days, when passengers bailed sea water from the hold, then chopped up the ship’s timbers to use as impromptu life rafts before being cast into the sea themselves.

He chronicles engineer Tommy Thompson’s epic quest for the lost vessel, an enterprise marked by hair-raising weather, the hostility of the deep ocean at 8,000 feet, highly experimental technology, and unscrupulous rival treasure-hunters.

 
 



ID # B002
 

 

 

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