Fifty True Mysteries of The Sea

• Other Authors: Canning, John (edited)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Dorset Press 1979
• Subjects: Seafaring life; Adventure and adventurers; Curiosities and wonders
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• Item Description: Bibliography p:461-464# Includes index
• Physical Description: 478 pages illustrations 24cm
• ISBN: 0880291958

Every sailor who is a reader and every reader who sometimes dreams of the sea loves to be enchanted by sea stories. In this book every story is true, and each is brilliantly told. A new liner vanishes without leaving a trace of wreckage to suggest her fate; a derelict aban doned near Samoa poses the tantalizing ques tion-what happened to crew and passengers? A man is swallowed by a whale and miraculous ly survives. A lone cloud on a balmy spring day sends a vessel to the bottom with heavy loss of life; a series of ill-fated coincidences causes an ammunition ship to blow up shatteringly at Bombay. Could Commander Crabb still be alive and in Russia? Why did Donald Crowhurst disappear during a round-the-world sailing race? Do the strange underwater structures found near the Bahamas suggest the re-emergence of Atlantis? These any many other mysteries form the in gredients of this compulsively readable book.