Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 930.102804
EAN num: 9781552978726
ISBN number: 1552978729
Label: Firefly Books
Manufacturer: Firefly Books
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 192
Printing Date: February 07, 2004
Publishing house: Firefly Books
Sale Popularity Level: 393647
Studio: Firefly Books
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Product Description:
The vast hidden world of sunken treasure.
With less than 2% of the world's ocean depths explored to date, a myriad of unimagined mysteries and treasures await discovery. Treasure Lost at Sea chronicles the excitement of underwater archaeology and search for treasure. The book recounts the major periods and geographic locations of shipwrecks.
Chapters include: - The classical world
- Scandinavian shipwrecks
- The age of discovery
- The Spanish galleons
- Bermuda, graveyard of ships
- Privateers, pirates and mutineers
- Deep-water shipwrecks (Bismarck, Titanic, and others)
- Port Royal: The sunken city
The lively text details the potential treasure as well as the political turf wars, technological limitations, and forces of nature that threaten any mission's success.
Humanity's long history of exploration, civilization, trade and war is littered with sunken vessels. Colorful and richly illustrated, Treasure Lost at Sea will inspire a new generation of underwater archaeologists.
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Rated by buyers 
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Coffee-table book of shipwrecks makes no endeavor to be systematic, but is well-enough done, with some nice pictures. Ultimately just an OK throwaway.
Rated by buyers 
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This is a well-written book which ranges in presentation of shipwrecks and their treasures from ancient wrecks to a few 20th century ships (Titanic, Bismark). Lots of adventure and tales of the search for treasure ships without getting bogged down in minutae. The ships range through time since man began plying the seas and across the world. I really enjoyed reading this book and highly recommend it to you. The only reason I didn't give it 5 stars is because I would have liked MORE pictures. It is loaded with pictures, but there was plenty of space to include more!
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