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Ghost Ship: The Mysterious True Story of the Mary Celeste and Her Missing Crew
by Brian Hicks
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0345463919
- ISBN 13
- 9780345463913
- Seller
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Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
288 Pages. Stated First Edition and by the full number line. Dust jacket Not price-clipped.
This fascinating book is an attempt to discover and explain what happened to the captain and crew of the mysteriously abandoned sailing ship, the Mary Celeste. The book comes in a Fine dust jacket with only small wrinkles along some of its edges keeping it from being Like-New. The interior book has light gluing inside the front and rear covers to keep the dust jacket edges tight, but otherwise is in Like-New condition with no visible extraneous markings anywhere within it, and thus all printing in very well=preserved and enjoyable condition and the sewn-in bindings still very sound and tight.
This book will be carefully wrapped up and then boxed and sent right away to you from here in New Jersey and comes to you with our total appreciation for your interest and for your order.
This fascinating book is an attempt to discover and explain what happened to the captain and crew of the mysteriously abandoned sailing ship, the Mary Celeste. The book comes in a Fine dust jacket with only small wrinkles along some of its edges keeping it from being Like-New. The interior book has light gluing inside the front and rear covers to keep the dust jacket edges tight, but otherwise is in Like-New condition with no visible extraneous markings anywhere within it, and thus all printing in very well=preserved and enjoyable condition and the sewn-in bindings still very sound and tight.
This book will be carefully wrapped up and then boxed and sent right away to you from here in New Jersey and comes to you with our total appreciation for your interest and for your order.
Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- Mountain Gull Trading Company
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 712
- Title
- Ghost Ship: The Mysterious True Story of the Mary Celeste and Her Missing Crew
- Author
- Brian Hicks
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0345463919
- ISBN 13
- 9780345463913
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York
- Date Published
- June 2004
- Pages
- 288
- Size
- 6 3/8" x 9 1/2"
- Keywords
- First Editions; Ghost Ships; Seafaring; Sailing Vessels; Seafaring folklore
- Bookseller catalogs
- First Editions; Books on Ships;
Terms of Sale
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Mountain Gull Trading Company
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Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey
About Mountain Gull Trading Company
Mountain Gull Trading Company has been in business for over 20 years. We used to specialize in books on specific areas of American History as our store started as one that sold books to historical reenacting participants at historical reenactments, yet now we have evolved to carrying books on numerous other subject areas in addition to our American History core.
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