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Summary: Great story, excellent writing, and NO PHOTOS!
Review: If ever there was a book that cried out for photos, this one is it and yet no photos. I know there is now another book providing the photographic record, but they should have been in this volume. This is a huge and glaring mistake and only the skilled writer saved the book from disaster when the enginering must be verbally explained. I felt a number of minor characters in the story of the ship wreck could have been cut without any great loss to the central story which tends to bog down in detail about the disaster. The detail is needed in the recovery phase but not is telling the history and some drama was lost because of it. Over all a compelling read and well worth the time.
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Summary: Absorbing
Review: This book had a fantastic layout. The historical accounts mixed with the ongoing events of an incredible engineering feat. The tension of the searches, and the battles of competition during the search. This is a must read and will put analytical people in awe..
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Summary: Outstanding from a former sea farer
Review: I have travelled half the world by ship and this read is true to the fact. A great read even for the non sailors. The story transitions smoothly and will keep you reading on.
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Summary: A Must Read Book for Every Engineer or Engineering Student
Review: The title sounds weird but I really mean it. As a educator of pre-engineering students at a local two-year college I can think of no better book to introduce a student to what a truly gifted engineer does. If you have a friend, child, collegue, whatever who has a bit of engineer in them, get them this book and have them read it. If you are an engineer or love to tinker on old cars, planes, trains, etc. you won't be able to put this down. The disaster and man vs. nature storyline is enough to hook anyone but for those with a technical or mechanical bent, the descriptions of the problems encountered and surmounted in recovering the gold take the book beyond almost every other recent work in the genre.
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Summary: Ship of Gold (in the Deep Blue Sea)
Review: I highly recommend this book as a clearly written, exciting description of the technical aspects of the search for, and discovery of the wreck of the Central America. Gary Kinder has avoided making an interesting story dull by use of a conversational tone, and an interesting juxtaposition of a description of the sinking of the ship,and the description of the organization and description of the Columbus-America partnerships discovery of the wreck 130 years later. I expected a fairly dry recitation of the facts, and was pleasantly surprised to have an almost couldn't put it down book. While a little more space could have been devoted to the artifacts recovered, overall the book is an excellent example of non-fiction writing and enjoyable to read.
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