The Sea Hunters: True Adventures with Famous Shipwrecks
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The Sea Hunters: True Adventures with Famous Shipwrecks
Clive Cussler
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ASIN: 0743480694
Release Date: 2003-08-26

Book Description

FROM THE CREATOR OF DIRK PITT® -- THE WORLD'S #1 ACTION HERO...REAL STORIES. REAL EXCITEMENT. REAL ADVENTURE.

THE SEA HUNTERS

A steamboat goes up in flames...and down to the bottom of the sea. A locomotive plunges into a creek...and vanishes into mystery. A German U-boat sends an American troop transport, and eight hundred on board, to a watery grave...on Christmas Eve.

Clive Cussler and his crack team of NUMA (National Underwater Marine Agency, a nonprofit organization that searches for historic shipwrecks) volunteers have found the remains of these and numerous other tragic wrecks. Here are the dramatic, true accounts of twelve of the most remarkable underwater discoveries made by Cussler and his team. As suspenseful and satisfying as the best of his Dirk Pitt novels, The Sea Hunters is a unique story of true commitment and courage.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars the sea hunters.......2007-08-27

this book is different from cusslers novels, it is many historical stories of the search for famious shipwrecks.

5 out of 5 stars The Sea Hunters.......2007-05-08

This book was great, as always with this author. Even more so since the stories were based on fact.

4 out of 5 stars Cussler Gets Real.......2006-11-16

Dusting off Dirk Pitt novels for a bit, Clive Cussler took some time to write "The Sea Hunters" True Adventures with Famous Shipwrecks." In it, Cussler writes a small dramatization of what might have happened to certain ships, from the terror of the Mississippi that was the C.S.S. Arkansas, to the wretched misfortune of the Leopoldville. After each dramatization, Cussler then explains the actions taken by himself and his group, NUMA, as the seek out each of these wrecks. Some of them are successful hunts, while others end with less impressive results.

The group finds wrecks in some of the strangest places. They uncover one ship in a parking lot on Galveston Island. They also "find" a locomotive in Colorado that was washed down river when a storm destroyed the train tracks. I won't spoil want they actually find on that particular case, but it does have a slightly humorous result.

Cussler seems to be more relaxed with his writing style in this particular book. He attempts to come off as an egotistical lurch, but it is easy to realize that this man really enjoys what he is doing. His enthusiasm is what keeps this book afloat, and it makes for a fun read that's just as good or better than his Dirk Pitt books.

Highly recommended to fans of nautical history, especially those interested in the Confederate Navy. Cussler reveals quite a few gems in the Rebel fleet. My personal favorite is the aforementioned C.S.S. Arkansas. Until I read this book, I had never heard of it. But much like Cussler says in this book, "The winners write the history."

A very nice read.

4 out of 5 stars Bogie's Review.......2005-03-12

This book is mostly non-fiction in that the greatest emphasis is on the real activities Cussler and NUMA members go through to find different ships (and a train). If you love his fiction stories of Dirk Pitt and Steve Austin then you'll get a little sense of what is in this book. Multiple short stories of different catastrophes at sea or in other waters. He dramatizes each catastrophe detailing what (he believes) happened to the crewmembers and the ship (or train) in the last hours of its life--these seem very realistic. Fast forward to today and he documents all the research and interviewing of witnesses (if they are still alive) he does in order to prove or disprove the historical records of where the wreck is located. He finally details the long, boring hours of trolling with a magnetometer to find the wreck. He admits that these are boring. When he spends a lot of time on those details that makes the stories somewhat boring too. What I thought was fascinating was the research, his sifting through multiple conflicting pieces of evidence and how he sometimes comes to the conculusion that the historical record was wrong and the wreck was actually in a different place, how after he finishes searching for the wreck, he does find it within a 1/2 mile of where he expected to find it and sometimes tens of miles away from the officially recorded location. To me this is much like a good detective story.

3 out of 5 stars Don't assume you'll like this because you like his fiction.......2005-03-03

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.
The Sea Hunters - True Adventures with Famous Shipwrecks
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    The Sea Hunters - True Adventures with Famous Shipwrecks
    Clive and Dirgo, Craig Cussler
    Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
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    Binding: Hardcover
    ASIN: B000IZECQ0
    The Sea Hunters, True Adventures with Famous Shipwrecks
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      The Sea Hunters, True Adventures with Famous Shipwrecks
      Clive and Dirgo, Craig Cussler
      Manufacturer: Pocket Stat Books
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      Binding: Paperback
      ASIN: B000RVFGYM
      The Sea Hunters: True Adventures With Famous Shipwrecks
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        The Sea Hunters: True Adventures With Famous Shipwrecks
        Clive; Dirgo, Craig Cussler
        Manufacturer: Pocket Books
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        Binding: Mass Market Paperback
        ASIN: B000P9D1ZC
        The Sea Hunters Ii - More True Adventures With Famous Shipwrecks
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          The Adventures Of Myhr
          Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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          The Adventures Of Myhr
          P.N. Elrod
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          Customer Reviews:

          2 out of 5 stars All the elements are there....but.......2004-04-19

          I have to agree with the other reviewers on the separate elements of this book. However, they didn't seem to come together to make this a compelling read. I found myself skimming through many parts to get to the meat of the story. I could not connect with the characters and didn't really care about them. I am a fan of both P.N. Elrod and this genre and tried hard to like this book but in the end could not.

          5 out of 5 stars More Fun Than A Barrel Of ...Vampires?.......2003-10-28

          One of my general rules of reading is, "Just because you really like books by a particular author, don't expect to enjoy his/her newest series." I started reading P.N. Elrod's vampire books when the first Jack Fleming novel came out, and I've been a devoted reader ever since. I did, however, resist the lure of "The Adventures of Myhr" for several months, unwilling to branch from vampire stories to a comedy/fantasy about a half man/half cat and his wizard partner.

          Stupid move on my part. This book is just an unbelievable amount of fun to read. Myhr is a great character, and by the end of just a few chapters I was already looking forward to another book in the series. How can you resist a character who has the body of a man and the face of a cat, wandering from world to world (with his partner, the wizard) in an attempt to get back home. While his partner handles the magical end of things, Myhr supports them as an entertainer, telling jokes and singing old Beatles songs to people who've never heard of The Beatles. Oh yeah - - people constantly mistake him for the magic practitioner of the pair, which leads to a lot of the fun.

          P. N. Elrod has always had a great writing style, but her capacity for humor and the ease with which she pulls together a great story in the midst of the jokes was truly a surprise. I'll be there when the next Myhr book comes along, and you should, too.

          4 out of 5 stars magic, magic where art thou?.......2003-08-20

          Terrin the Texas wizard and his good buddy Myhr (rhymes with purr), are in the middle of being thrown from world to world (like the TV show sliders) when they land in one which quite literally sucks the magic out of people. This is bad news, as magic is how they move from world to world and both of them want to get home!

          Myhr is half man-half cat and all fun. This is a light hearted romp that takes you to hell and back, but doesn't take itself too seriously in the process. This is a distinct change of direction for the author Elrod who is better known for her vampire novels.

          If you want an enjoyable fantasy with some interesting and funny characters then this book is a good read.

          5 out of 5 stars High Wisdom, Low Comedy, and one Hell of a good read!.......2003-07-18

          P. N. Elrod may have made her bones as a "Vampire Writer", but that doesn't mean she can't cover ALL the bases when she says "And Now For Something Completely Different."

          Take one cat-headed humanlike hero, add in his best friend, a VERY high level wizard/mage/realityhacker, toss in the fact that they're lost out in the MultiVerse, and then drop them right into the middle of the Place Where Hell's River Overflowed. After that, things get weird! :)

          And very very funny. This is a magnificently well-paced book, as the reader is led to just how deep is the slok our Heroes are standing in, and how carefully they must work their way out of it lest they do even more damage in the process. (Take a look at a city block after Superman's been fighting in it, and you'll see what I mean.) The prose is deft, the characters involving, the villains villainous, the belly laughs plentiful, the plot thickening superb and, as a bonus, there is some excellent wisdom to be found in just WHY our heroes are so careful.

          This story has made it onto my "Gotta RE-read this" list, and these days, given that I can't even begin to Keep Up With Them All, that list is the highest honor I can give a book.

          Thank you, Ms. Elrod. Your next Myhr book is already on my "Gotta get it" list.

          5 out of 5 stars Myhr is a fantastic new character.......2003-06-17

          P.N. Elrod has delivered a sassy, fun to read story with a wonderful protagonist - Myhr, cat-faced and all man. Take an alternate universe, add more than a few dollops of magic gone awry, a large helping of great dialogue, and lots of "meanwhile, in another part of the forest" plotting, and this book keeps you focused and interested and having a good time. I hope there are sequels in the works, because following this character through more rumpuses would be just this side of paradise!
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          5 out of 5 stars The Gut Solution .......2007-05-13

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          Treasures await you at flea markets. But to find the best deals, you first need to know how to recognize value. This book will help you separate gems from junk in your quest for flea market antiques and collectibles:

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          1 out of 5 stars the official guide to flea market prices .......2005-08-18

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            Babylonian Planetary Omens (Bibliotheca Mesopotamica)
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                Babylonian Planetary Omens, Part Four (Cuneiform Monographs)
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                  Babylonian Planetary Omens, part three.(Review) (book review): An article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society
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                    Ulla Koch Westenholz
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                    This digital document is an article from The Journal of the American Oriental Society, published by American Oriental Society on April 1, 2000. The length of the article is 1405 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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                    Title: Babylonian Planetary Omens, part three.(Review) (book review)
                    Author: Ulla Koch Westenholz
                    Publication: The Journal of the American Oriental Society (Refereed)
                    Date: April 1, 2000
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                    If you seem like your hunger for new fonts is insatiable, then Indie Fonts 2 is the book for you. It is the second installment in Rockport's Indie Fonts series and brings you even more fonts to choose from. Don't settle for ordinary fonts when you can capture your reader's attention with an original font that hasn't been become overused and boring.

                    Indie Fonts 2 includes more than 1600 diverse fonts from 19 of today's hottest digital type foundries and features the best work of these designers. This comprehensive collection helps designers do their jobs even better by providing some of the highest quality fonts available today.

                    The type styles range from the best of Matthew Carter's classic designs to the latest irreverence of ingoFonts. Designers searching for unique typefaces will find what they are looking for, whether historical revivals or futuristic techno faces.

                    Customer Reviews:

                    5 out of 5 stars This book is great! 0 Stars for Amazon though... Consider Yourself Warned!.......2006-01-29

                    I bought this book from Amazon thinking that I'd have better luck than the Oct. 2005 shopper... Boy was I wrong! Not only is the book all broken in/cover torn & scratched... the CD IS MISSING!!! That's part of the reason I bought this book. I purchased this book "brand new" from Amazon (triple-checked my receipt to confirm).

                    The book itself is great, but please do yourself a favor and DO NOT buy this book from Amazon--you'll be thoroughly disappointed.

                    1 out of 5 stars bad for business.......2005-10-18

                    this item was described as brand new in plastic wrap, which is why i purchased it as a gift for a friend. not only was this item CLEARLY used, it was falling apart. the book was shipped to me with a broken spine, the paper sover had marks all over it and there was NO plastic wrap protecting the item. i am very upset with the service i received, and will NOT be shopping with amazon again!

                    5 out of 5 stars Resource for graphic artists and web designers--wonderful.......2005-10-02

                    This is an unusual volume; you get a book with 408 pages of various resources, organized by font foundry. You can sample the work of each foundry and get an idea of their product line.

                    Best of all, the front of the book has in index in alphabetical order showing each font. So you can locate a font you like and then look it up for additional information.

                    You can also find the AIGA's guide to the Use of Fonts, important for understanding copyright in using fonts in your work.

                    The bonus CD has 33 fully-licensed fonts. Not all of them are unique--you can find some of these gratis on the web, but the collection is handy for those who can't get enough fonts. I only found a few of these really worth having.

                    American Spirit
                    Charaille
                    Lovesick
                    Nightmare
                    Scrawm
                    Sunspots
                    Transponder
                    Fridayluck
                    Patching Compound
                    Snipple
                    Schnookems
                    Black Widow
                    Sparkly (Fontdiner.com, a fave of mine)
                    Loungy (also fontdiner.com)
                    Bowl-o-rama
                    Eric sans and sans italic
                    Sinsation
                    P22 typewrites
                    Cusp Three Opp
                    PRR Sinel
                    Faceplate sans A and C gauge
                    Atomic Suck
                    Stunner Leather Jackts
                    Screwtop regular and negative
                    TX Manifesto
                    Cyphor7
                    Strenuous 3D

                    My faves are of course from fontdiner.com--the best retro fonts out there, I think.

                    5 out of 5 stars Indie Fonts.......2003-01-02

                    Wow! "Indie Fonts" is indeed a quality book both in the information it provides and the workmanship afforded in the making of the book itself. Few publishers take pride in making such a quality product as this...like the bookbinders of yesteryear. You can see the workmanship as soon as you lay eyes on it. You can feel the wokmanship the moment you pick it up. A work of Art! Highly recommended. Enjoy!

                    4 out of 5 stars Indie Fonts Brings Unseen Type to the Masses.......2002-12-19

                    The book's hardback permanence and $$$ ($$$ from Chank, that scoundrel) list price make it more of a reference than a catalog. Bound in stunning red cloth, Indie Fonts' exterior brings to mind the solid albums of ATF and Linotype. With class and substance, this volume lends credence to each firm it represents.

                    Up front is a style index with a one-line showing for each font and page number referring to the corresponding full specimen.

                    Generally well-planned specimen pages organized in foundry sections make up the bulk of the content. Each foundry created its own section page with a company bio and ordering information. Each shop also designed its own specimens based on Grieshaber's templates, resulting in showings of slightly varying quality. On the whole, the type is given ample room for full character sets, although things get a bit tight for foundries with more fonts to show. Text faces are often shown in paragraph form with a tiny column measure. It would be nice to see how they perform in more extensive settings. The font name, designer and year of design are listed in the sidebar. Some foundries opted to include notes on the font's use or origin in this margin and those specimens are better for it.

                    Trailing the foundry sections is a glossary, a reading list, and a handy character reference chart. Also included is the AIGA's guide to the Use of Fonts which covers some font copyright and ethical use concepts misunderstood by most designers. A simple index of font names and designers rounds out the book.

                    Tucked into the inside back cover is a CD of 33 "Bonus Fonts" which are fully licensed for immediate use. Some are true commercial goodies and add value to the book, others are available for free elsewhere, and a few are pure poop.

                    Not Seen on TV

                    Any collection of independent typography is subject to a wide variety of style and quality. In no other book can one find the classic work of regal Matthew Carter directly followed by the irreverant fonts of Chank. Indie Fonts proudly hails both the king and the court jester. But the unexpected is what makes the volume so valuable. Much of this type has never been used by a magazine or multi-national corporation. These are fonts not seen on TV. These are mass-culture virgins. To a designer struggling to make an impact in a world over-saturated with the same old look, this stuff is gold.

                    Most of the typefaces in Indie Fonts were already unveiled by their respective foundries in those previously mentioned corners of the web, but there are a few that will be new, even to surfing typoholics. Fresh Fountain fonts made their debut in Indie Fonts before the redesigned web site went live. Peter Bilak's multi-descendered Fedra Serif (still in preview form at Typotheque) is displayed beautifully in one of the more thorough specimens of the book. Without a website or distributor, much of Matthew Carter's Carter & Cone library (Fenway, Big Figgins, ITC Galliard CC, Ionic #1, Sammy Roman, and Wilson Greek) is on display here for the first time, as far as I know. And It's a relief to see all of the Test Pilot Collective in one accessible place, their website still repelling hopeful visitors after years of being AWOL.

                    Worth a Spot on the Shelf

                    Indie Fonts isn't quite on par with the master of all specimen books, FontShop's FontBook. But it's more of a companion to the catalogs of the large distributors than it is a replacement. In the end, those who rely only on the big boys are overlooking a valuable set of typefaces - many of which are effectively set into motion by this very worthy tool.
                    Indie Fonts 2 No CD
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                      Indie Fonts 2 No CD
                      Richard Kegler
                      Manufacturer: ROCKPORT PUBLISHERS
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                      Binding: Hardcover
                      ASIN: B000VFJDWK
                      INDIE FONTS 2, A COMPENDIUM OF DIGITAL TYPE FROM INDEPENDENT FOUNDRIES.
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                        INDIE FONTS 2, A COMPENDIUM OF DIGITAL TYPE FROM INDEPENDENT FOUNDRIES.
                        Richard, James Grieshaber and Tamye Riggs (editors) Kegler
                        Manufacturer: P-Type Publications
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                        Binding: Hardcover
                        ASIN: B000TZX1CU
                        Indie Fonts 2: Vol 2
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                          Indie Fonts 2: Vol 2

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                            Womanist Justice, Womanist Hope (American Academy of Religion Academy Series)
                            Emilie M. Townes
                            Manufacturer: An American Academy of Religion Book
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                            This book offers an important contribution to the recovery and articulation of African-American womanist experience. Ida Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) was an activist, social reformer, and churchwoman. Womanist Justice, Womanist Hope recovers her life and historical context and examines the extent to which her perspective can be a resource for a contemporary womanist Christian social ethic. Beginning with a brief biographical sketch of Wells-Barnett, Emilie Townes examines the religious and social world in which she worked as well as her many speeches and publciations. Townes focuses especially on Wells-Barnett's participation in the anti-lynching campaigns of the late nineteenth century. She argues that Wells-Barnett's life and work can provide important lessons in leadership and social activism for contemporary Black churchwomen. nature of leadership for Black women,

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