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Summary: Hunley's Hero
Review: Clive Cussler deserves everyone's thanks for not only finding the Hunley but taking the steps necessary to insure that it would be protected from salvagers, responsibly recovered and carefully preserved. Cussler and his band of NUMA divers are living the dreams of every recreational wreck diver (including me), and doing so in a way that both increases public knowledge of these historical artifacts and increases the likelihood that they will be preserved. The book itself is a fascinating series of stories about some of NUMA's most notable shipwreck projects, including the stories of the ships, the circumstances surrounding their sinkings, and NUMA's search for and discovery of the ships. All of this is told with Cussler's considerable talents for adventure writing. A fascinating and impossible-to-put-down book!!
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Summary: Will the real Dirk Pit please stand up?
Review: Clive has put it all together. The real life adventures bring you to understand
what drives this man Clive to write about Dirk Pit.
This is a must read for all Cussler fans. This book made me hungry for more
history on those wrecks he found. It also put many of his other books
in perspective.
I have read (and listened) to everything Cussler and I can't wait for the next!!!
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Summary: Dirk Pitt's real adventures?
Review: Cussler (along with Craig Dirgo) recounts the real-life searches for a number of famous shipwrecks (and a lost locomotive) in this non-fiction book. You'll see the inspiration for a lot of the fictional Dirk Pitt's adventures in Cussler's narratives.While the book is enjoyable, some of the searches are given a shorter shrift, and others are longer, leaving you wanting more. Also, each section is preceded by a "dramatic" rendering of how a ship was lost, and some of these sections are a bit flat. Actually, I wanted more detail on Cussler's searches and his adventures with his NUMA buddies. Still, if you like Cussler's Pitt adventures, and love sea stories, you'll want to at least give this a look.
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Summary: This was a very good book,Cussler is one of a kind.
Review: Cussler takes first place when it comes to war. His war scenes are great but it got boring during the historical parts.The action scenes are very realistic.
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Summary: Cussler's good as always on a new type of book!
Review: Cussler's great @ what ever he writes (except Vixen 03). The historical fiction was terrific! As good as this book was, I can give only one suggestion to improve the next. Clive, give more detail about how you found the ships! That was a little obscure but otherwise the book was wonderful. To those of you who were disappointed (to say the least) that this wasn't a Dirk Pitt book, you have the right to be disappointed, but don't you ever read anything else?
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Summary: The Real Dirk Pitt
Review: Great Book. I'm not one for non-fiction, but this is an exception. It has exciting historical-fiction stories about actual sunken ships and a non-fiction account of how the author, Clive Cusser (Dirk Pitt) and his band of actual NUMA sub-mariners were able to search for, and find these historical relics. A must read!
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Summary: Don't assume you'll like this because you like his fiction
Review: I bought and read this book because I've -- literally -- bought and ready every other Cussler book.
Frankly, I found this one a bit of a bore. Not bad... but not why I read Cussler.
I'm going to stick with Cussler's fiction.
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Summary: These are better than some of his novels!
Review: I have always had a strong interest in shipwrecks, partly because of my reading "Raise the Titanic" as a teenager.
Cussler's books have always been good reads, with some very well done characters.
But I really enjoyed the "Sea Hunters," as I liked very much to read about the finding of these vessels.
The history of the Civil War gunboats, the passengers vessels and the others are all great reading, though I think Cussler may have taken some liberties with trying to reset the scenes as those ships met their ends. You never can tell with those.
What I also enjoyed were some of the escapades Clive and the gang got up to while searching. Makes you want to get a second-hand magnetometer and go looking.
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Summary: Back to the Pitts!
Review: I have been a loyal Clive Cussler fan and have read all of the Dirk Pitt books. My favorites were Night Probe, Treasure, and Raise The Titanic but I enjoyed them all. However, I was truly disappointed in his first non-fiction book. Let's hope he gets back to the Pitt's.
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Summary: AN EXCELLENT IN HISTORY
Review: I have been a loyal reader of Clive Cussler for over 20 years. Although the majority of the accounts leading up to the sinking of the vessels in this book are fiction, they are written as if the author was an eye wittness to each of the events. Making each story that much more meaningful.(i.e. "The USS Lexington"). I especialy admire Mr. Cussler for using his, "PROFITS" form his other novels to fund his research, expeditions, NUMA and not asking for funds from the government or National Geographic. Cudos to the National Geographic Society for all that they do. Hats off to Mr. Cussler, and good luck in raising the Civil War, "C.F.S. Hunley". I hope the rest of the nation will do the same, by reading this book, get an excellent history lesson, from an excellent book. Maybe Bob Ballard(NGS) should also!
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