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By: Jim Lovell
Price: $2.75
Publisher: Pocket: July 1995
Seller ID: 68286
ISBN: 0671534645
Condition: Used - Good
By: Lucy Irvine
Price: $19.95
Publisher: Random House: 1983
Seller ID: 28873
ISBN: 0394535421
Condition: Used - Very Good
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
ISBN: 0670015075
Condition: Used - Very Good
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
ISBN: 0786866845
Condition: Used - Very Good
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By: Dr. Jerri Nielsen with Maryanne Vollers
Price: $6.95
Publisher: Hyperion: 2001
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 77365
ISBN: 0786866845
Condition: Used - Very Good
Jerri Nielsen was a forty-six-year-old doctor working in Ohio when she made the decision to take a year's sabbatical at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station on Antarctica, the most remote and perilous place on Earth. The "Polies," as they are known, live in almost total darkness for six months of the year, in winter temperatures as low as 100 degrees below zero--with no way in or out before the spring.During the long winter of 1999, Dr. Nielsen, solely responsible for the mental and physical fitness of a team of researchers, construction workers, and support staff, discovered a lump in her bre... View more info
By: Gary Kinder
Price: $8.95
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pr: June 1998
Seller ID: 74837
ISBN: 0871134640
Condition: Used - Very Good
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 mountains of California, sank in a hurricane off the Carolina coast. Lost in legend for more than a century, the tragic story resurf... View more info
By: Thor Heyerdahl
Price: $4.95
Publisher: International Collectors Library: January 1950
Seller ID: 70574
ISBN: B0000CHM60
Condition: Used - Very Good
By: Sebastian Junger
Price: $4.95
Publisher: Harper Perennial: October 1999
Seller ID: 67450
ISBN: 0060977477
Condition: Used - Very Good
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
ISBN: 039304016X
Condition: Used - Very Good
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 than the men trying to rescue him. . . . I]f the boat's not going to Buschor, Buschor's going to have to go to it. SWIM the... View more info
