The Shipwreck Hunter

The Shipwreck Hunter
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Publisher : Atlantic Books
Total Pages : 544
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ISBN-10 : 9781925575286
ISBN-13 : 1925575284
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Book Synopsis The Shipwreck Hunter by : David L. Mearns

Download or read book The Shipwreck Hunter written by David L. Mearns and published by Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Mountbatten Award for Best Book, 2018 David Mearns has discovered some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. From the mighty battlecruiser HMS Hood to the crumbling wooden skeletons of Vasco da Gama's 16th century fleet, David has searched for and found dozens of sunken vessels in every ocean of the world. The Shipwreck Hunter is an account of David's most intriguing and fascinating finds. It details both the meticulous research and the mid-ocean stamina and courage required to find a wreck miles beneath the sea, as well as the moving human stories that lie behind each of these oceanic tragedies. Combining the derring-do of Indiana Jones with the precision of a surgeon, in The Shipwreck Hunter David Mearns opens a porthole into the shadowy depths of the ocean.


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