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By: Lucy Irvine
Price: $19.95
Publisher: Random House: 1983
Seller ID: 28873
minor edge wear, very light tanning, lightly rubbed - dust jacket chipped, edge worn rubbed - Buy with confidence from 'Your neighborhood book store,... online (tm) View more info
By: Haroun Tazieff
Price: $5.75
Publisher: Viking: 1960
Seller ID: 27919
former owner's name 1st page, light tanning, lightly rubbed else clean & tight - Buy with confidence from 'Your neighborhood book store,... online (tm) View more info
By: Dr. Jerri Nielsen with Maryanne Vollers
Price: $3.95
Publisher: Hyperion: 2001
Seller ID: 6865
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By: Hodgson, Michael
Price: $3.95
Publisher: Globe Pequot Press: August 2002
Seller ID: 72794
It all started out as a reckless but innocent ritual of some Western United States raft guides. A band of out of control thrill seekers who love to embellish and elevate even mundane tales of cowardice to inspirational tales of valor and glory. After a day's paddle the ritual began along the shores of a raging western river. Tales so adventure-packed and hyperbolic that they could rarely be completely believed. So started the idea for this book of sometimes outrageous, s... View more info
By: Gary Kinder
Price: $8.95
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pr: June 1998
Seller ID: 74837
Bestselling author Gary Kinder tells, for the first time, an extraordinary tale of history, maritime drama, heroic rescue, scientific ingenuity, and individual courage. Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea is the riveting true account of death, danger, and discovery on the high seas in the dramatic search for America's greatest lost treasure.In September 1857, the side-wheel streamer S.S. Central America, carrying five hundred passengers and tons of gold from the mountai... View more info
By: Thor Heyerdahl
Price: $4.95
Publisher: International Collectors Library: January 1950
Seller ID: 70574
By: Sebastian Junger
Price: $4.95
Publisher: Harper Perennial: October 1999
Seller ID: 67450
October 1991. It was "the perfect storm"--a tempest that may happen only once in a century--a nor'easter created by so rare a combination of factors that it could not possibly have been worse. Creating waves ten stories high and winds of 120 miles an hour, the storm whipped the sea to inconceivable levels few people on Earth have ever witnessed. Few, except the six-man crew of the "Andrea Gail," a commercial fishing boat tragically headed towards its hellish center. View more info
By: Sebastian Junger
Price: $3.95
Publisher: W.W. Norton: 1997
Seller ID: 15443
In October 1991, three weather systems collided off the coast of Nova Scotia to create a storm of singular fury, boasting waves over one hundred feet high. Among its victims was the Gloucester, Massachusetts-based swordfishing boat the Andrea Gail, which vanished with all six crew members aboard. "Drifting down on swimmers is standard rescue procedure, but the seas are so violent that Buschor keeps getting flung out of reach. There are times when he's thirty feet higher ... View more info
