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Summary: Great book!
Review: I listened to this book on a trip from Chicago to Charleston S.C. not knowing that one of the shipwrecks covered is the Civil War Confederate submarine Hunley. The whole book is great but I was particularly interested in this part. I listened to it over and over about 10 times during my trip. I only wish that they offered an unabridged version of this even if it is 5 tapes long I would buy it. S&S compressed 460 pages into two tapes there must be a lot left out.
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Summary: This book is not what you think...
Review: I neglected to buy this book in hardcover because I thought it would be too boring. I picked up the book in paperback last week and found most of it to be just as exciting as Clive's Pitt novels. 90% of the book is fictionalized accounts of how the ships actually sank, mostly civil war type stories. The parts were Clive actual searches for the ships are quite short and really not that thrilling. So I do recommend this book, and if you enjoy the Pitt novels, this one won't disappoint.
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Summary: A great blend science, history and adventure
Review: I read this in January while I was laid up with the flu, and I felt like I wanted to get out there with a metal detector a shovel and some history books! Cussler's real life exploits are told with care, but are not drawn out. the story of each wreck gives you the human drama, the hunt is an adventure (and at times a heart-wrenching one!) and the methods used to find these gems are all bound up in a neat package. I'd recommend to those who like archaeology, history and the thrill of the pursuit!
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Summary: Great wartime history
Review: I would reccomend this book for anyone interested in old wartime history. This book tells about shipwrecks (and one train wreck) that the author either found or found out about. The good part is, he tells about how they were sunk and then how he found them. It was not exactly what I expected, but it is a good book.
Also, if you are interested in searching for old shipwrecks, this book can help because it describes how he went about the searches and what is involved in finding wrecks.
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Summary: BORING
Review: If I knew then what I know now. I would not have wasted mymoney on this book.I thought this was another Dirk Pitt novel. BOY WASI WRONG!!!
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Summary: History comes alive!
Review: If you love scuba diving (I do)
and history (tell me more!)
and heroism, and storms at sea
and ships, and hi-tech gadgets
(I think I get the picture)
You'll get the book
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Summary: To the History seeking reader below
Review: If you prefer your history straight, buy a non-fiction history text. Hence the word FICTION. Duh!!!!
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Summary: ONE OF THE MOST INTERESING BOOKS ABOUT WRECK FINDING
Review: Ilives in a small village to the sea in the South West part of Holland 200 meters from the sea. In our area there are laying 500 shipwreck and with my own small boat i have located lots wrecks and with Lowrance X-16 echosounder and Decca navigator.i found them It is a very time consuming job to find the wrecks but a am very happy when i have a nice trace from my papersounder. When i start to read the hole book in one time. It is for me one of the most interesting books about wreckfinding because you must be very patience . Nearly for my door there is an old VOC ship the Woestduin but nobody have found it but roughly i know the position of this wreck. I am not a diver but sportfisherman . My profession is butcher
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Summary: Light reading for history buffs
Review: In his spare time Clive Cussler, the renowned author of adventure stories starring Dirk Pitt, hunts for historic ships that went down at sea or on rivers, by the hand of nature or man. In this first book he describes the explorations of the volunteers of NUMA to trace those ships. The ships are mainly 19th and 20th century warships. In about ten short stories he first very vividly describes what may have happened on board of the boats based on historical facts combined with fantasy and then the tedium and excitement of searching for and finding the ships (plus one train engine).Clive Cussler has a very funny style of writing which makes this book light reading, even though content-wise it is mainly for the really historically interested.
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Summary: Read the review
Review: Mr. Cussler writes well enough and is very likeable, however, the book is mostly "dramatized history" and I abhor that genre. Mr. Cussler warns the reader of his embellishments in advance and I'm sure he uses it to make the stories more interesting, but it is not for me. Also one ship after another kept sinking and after awhile it got monotonous. I wish Cussler well in his endeavors and I sure appreciated his honesty but I prefer my history "straight".
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