Clive Cussler; Craig Dirgo

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BOOK: Clive Cussler; Craig Dirgo
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Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Introduction

 

PART ONE - L’Aimable

I - The Father of Waters 1684-1685

II - Out of Reach 1998-1999

 

PART TWO - The Steamboat New Orleans

I - Penelore 1811-1814

II - Where Did It Go? 1986, 1995

 

PART THREE - The Ironclads Manassas and Louisiana

I - Civil War Turtle 1861—1862

II - They Don’t Come Cheaper Than This 1981, 1996

 

PART FOUR - U.S.S. Mississippi

I - A Magnificent End 1863

II - Nothing Stays the Same 1989

 

PART FIVE - The Siege of Charleston: Keokuk, Weehawken, and Patapsco

I - Cradle of Secession 1863—1865

II - Three for the Price of One 1981, 2001

 

PART SIX - The Cannon of San Jacinto

I - The Twin Sisters 1835, 1865, 1905

II - Dr. Graves, What Have You Done? 1987—1997

 

PART SEVEN - Mary Celeste

I - Mystery Ship 1872

II - Paradise Gone 2001

 

PART EIGHT - The Steamboat General Slocum

I - Never Again 1904

II - Coke Isn’t Necessarily a Soft Drink 1994, 2000

 

PART NINE - S.S. Waratah

I - Disappearing Act 1909

II - Is It Here or Is It There? 1987-2001

 

PART TEN - R.M.S. Carpathia

I - Savior of the Seas 1912,1918

II - It’s Never Easy 2000

 

PART ELEVEN - L’Oiseau Blanc

I - The White Bird 1927

II - Rain, Black Flies, and Bogs 1984, 1997, 1998

 

PART TWELVE - U.S.S. Akron

I - Lighter Than Air 1931-1933

II - No Surfing in New Jersey 1986

 

PART THIRTEEN - PT-109

I - PT-109 1943

II - I Have a Special Room in My Mind for You 2001

 

PART FOURTEEN - I America’s Leonardo da Vinci

America’s Leonardo da Vinci - 1792, 2001

 

POSTSCRIPT FROM THE AUTHOR

CURRENT LIST OF NUMA SEARCH SURVEYS AND DISCOVERIES

ADDITIONAL HISTORIC SITES AND ARTIFACTS

“NOBODY DOES IT BETTER
THAN CLIVE CUSSLER.
NOBODY
.”

—Stephen Coonts

 

The Sea Hunters II is...

 

“Fascinating.”

—The Associated Press

 

 

“Thrilling.”

—Library Journal

“Genuinely illuminating.”

—Kirkus Reviews

“As with the first
Sea Hunters,
Cussler brings history alive
with the same deft storytelling touch he has used in a popular, long-running series of adventure novels featuring Superman-of-the-seas Dirk Pitt.”
—Fort Worth Star-Telegram

 

 

REAL ADVENTURES.
REAL GLORY.

 

 

For nearly twenty-five years, the real-life NUMA, Clive Cussler’s National Underwater & Marine Agency, has scoured rivers and seas in search of lost ships of historic significance—such as the Confederate submarine
Hunley
, which they raised in 2000.

 

In this second volume of true stories, Cussler and colleague Craig Dirgo target the famous ghost ship
Mary Celeste;
the
Carpathia,
the ship that rescued the
Titanic
survivors only to be lost to U-boats six years later;
L’Oiseau Blanc,
the airplane that almost beat
The Spirit of St. Louis
across the Atlantic before disappearing in the Maine woods—plus steamboats, ironclads, a seventeenth-century flagship, a certain famous PT boat, and even a dirigible—to prove once again that truth can be “at least as fun as, and sometimes stranger than, fiction” (
Men’s Journal
).

 

 

“Cussler’s artful writing style and varied experiences while searching for historical treasures make this a first-rate adventure book.”
—Publishers Weekly

 

“FASCINATINGLY TOLD.”
—Kirkus Reviews

PRAISE FOR

THE SEA HUNTERS

 


The Sea Hunters
is a rollicking good book.”

—Norman N. Brown,
Chicago Tribune

 

“Cussler tells one hell of a story.”

—New York Daily News

 

“Cussler does a great job of making history lively and
interesting ... He entertains and enlightens at the same
time, [and] his infectious enthusiasm will have more
than one reader wondering if there’s any way he can
hook up with him on his next adventure.”

—The Denver Post

 

 

“[An] absorbing, fast-paced collection.”

—Publishers Weekly

 

 

 

PRAISE FOR

 

THE NUMA® NOVELS

 

“MARVELOUS ... simply terrific fun.”

—Kirkus Reviews

 

 

“YOU CAN’T GET MUCH MORE SATISFYING.”

—The Cleveland Plain Dealer

 

 

“A GREAT STORY.”


Tulsa World

 

 

“WILDLY ENTERTAINING.”


New York Daily News

PRAISE FOR

CLIVE CUSSLER

 

“A NEW CLIVE CUSSLER NOVEL IS LIKE
A VISIT FROM YOUR BEST FRIEND.”

—Tom Clancy

 

. “PURE ENTERTAINMENT ...
as reliable as Pitt’s trusty Colt .45.”


People

 

“Just about the best storyteller in the business.”


New York Post

 

 

“PURE CUSSLER, PURE FUN.
The action just keeps accelerating.”


The San Francisco Examiner

 

 

“CLIVE CUSSLER HAS NO EQUAL.”


Publishers Weekly

Dirk Pitt® Adventures by Clive Cussler

VALHALLA RISING
ATLANTIS FOUND
FLOOD TIDE
SHOCK WAVE
INCA GOLD
SAHARA
DRAGON
TREASURE
CYCLOPS
DEEP SIX
PACIFIC VORTEX
NIGHT PROBE
VIXEN 03
RAISE THE
TITANIC!
ICEBERG
THE MEDITERRANEAN CAPER

 

 

Fiction by Clive Cussler with Paul Kemprecos

FIRE ICE
SERPENT
BLUE GOLD

 

 

Fiction by Clive Cussler and Craig Dirgo

GOLDEN BUDDHA

 

 

Nonfiction by Clive Cussler and Craig Dirgo

THE SEA HUNTERS II
THE SEA HUNTERS
CLIVE CUSSLER AND DIRK PITT REVEALED

If you purchased this book without a cover, you should be aware that this book is stolen property. It was reported as “unsold and destroyed” to the publisher, and neither the authors nor the publisher has received any payment for this “stripped book.”

 

 

 

THE SEA HUNTERS II

 

 

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the authors

 

 

 

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©
2002 by Sandecker, RLLLP.

 

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