An edition of Ghost Ship (2004)

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the mysterious true story of the Mary Celeste and her missing crew

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An edition of Ghost Ship (2004)

Ghost ship

the mysterious true story of the Mary Celeste and her missing crew

1st ed.
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On December 4th, 1872, a 100-foot brigantine was discovered drifting through the North Atlantic without a soul on board. Not a sign of struggle, not a shred of damage, no ransacked cargo--and not a trace of the captain, his wife and daughter, or the crew. What happened on board the ghost ship Mary Celeste has baffled and tantalized the world for 130 years. In his stunning new book, award-winning journalist Brian Hicks plumbs the depths of this fabled nautical mystery and finally uncovers the truth. The Mary Celeste was cursed as soon as she was launched on the Bay of Fundy in the spring of 1861. Her first captain died before completing the maiden voyage. In London she accidentally rammed and sank an English brig. Later she was abandoned after a storm drove her ashore at Cape Breton. But somehow the ship was recovered and refitted, and in the autumn of 1872 she fell to the reluctant command of a seasoned mariner named Benjamin Spooner Briggs. It was Briggs who was at the helm when the Mary Celeste sailed into history. In Brian Hicks's skilled hands, the story of the Mary Celeste becomes the quintessential tale of men lost at sea. Hicks vividly recreates the events leading up to the crew's disappearance and then unfolds the complicated and bizarre aftermath--the dark suspicions that fell on the officers of the ship that intercepted her; the farcical Admiralty Court salvage hearing in Gibraltar; the wild myths that circulated after Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published a thinly disguised short story sensationalizing the mystery. Everything from a voodoo curse to an alien abduction has been hauled out to explain the fate of the Mary Celeste. But, as Brian Hicks reveals, the truth is actually grounded in the combined tragedies of human error and bad luck. The story of the Mary Celeste acquired yet another twist in 2001, when a team of divers funded by novelist Clive Cussler located the wreck in a coral reef off Haiti.Written with the suspense of a thriller and the vivid accuracy of the best popular history, Ghost Ship tells the unforgettable true story of the most famous and most fascinating maritime mystery of all time.From the Hardcover edition.

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Ballantine Books
Language
English
Pages
288

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Ghost Ship: The Mysterious True Story of the Mary Celeste and Her Missing Crew
June 28, 2005, Ballantine Books
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Ghost ship: the mysterious true story of the Mary Celeste and her missing crew
2004, Ballantine Books
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Ghost Ship
2004, Random House Publishing Group
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-279) and index.

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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
910/.9163/3
Library of Congress
G530.M3 H53 2004

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvi, 288 p. :
Number of pages
288

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3303015M
Internet Archive
ghostshipmysteri00bria
ISBN 10
0345463919
LCCN
2004043698
OCLC/WorldCat
54407729
Library Thing
144920
Goodreads
1876303

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