The Sea Hunters II : More True Adventures with Famous Shipwrecks

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2002. Appears unread. Fine condition in bright, shiny Fine Dust Jacket. No chips. No tears. Not a book club edition. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder marks. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Clean, square, tight, and unmarked. Sharp corners. Pages are fresh and crisp, apparently never read. First printing, with complete number row (13579 10 8642) on the copyright page. With 16 pages of illustrations. Appendices. From the Dust Jacket: "For twenty-three years, Clive Cussler's real-life NUMA, the National Underwater and Marine Agency, has scoured rivers and seas in search of lost ships of historic significance. His teams have been inundated by tidal waves and beset by obstacles -- both human and natural -- but the results, and the stories behind them, have been dramatic: the raising of the Confederate submarine Hunley in the year 2000 alone made international headlines. 'I'm addicted to the challenge of the search,' says Cussler, 'whether it's for lost shipwrecks, airplanes, steam locomotives, or people.' In their first account, THE SEA HUNTERS, Cussler and colleague Craig Dirgo shared some of their stories, and the book became a number-one bestseller. 'Cussler does a great job of making history lively and interesting,' said The Denver Post. '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.' But there was no way that Cussler and Dirgo could do more than scratch the surface of their experiences in a single book, and in THE SEA HUNTERS II, they provide another extraordinary, even more fascinating narrative of their true seagoing -- and land -- adventures. The famous ghost ship Mary Celeste, found floating off the Azores in 1874 with no one on board; the Carpathia, the ship that rescued Titanic survivors and was itself 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 -- all these, plus steamboats, ironclads, a seventeenth-century flagship, a certain famous PT boat [i.e. PT 109], and even a dirigible, are tantalizing targets as Cussler proves again that truth can be 'at least as fun as, and sometimes stranger than, fiction' (MEN'S JOURNAL). Dramatic, compelling and personal, Clive Cussler's THE SEA HUNTERS II is as exciting and satisfying as the best of his novels.". First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's blue boards/DJ Not Price Clipped (27.95). 8vo. (xvii), 446pp. . Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.