Deep Blue
Stories of Shipwreck, Sunken Treasure and Survival
Published on 29. May 2001
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Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-1-56025-313-6 (ISBN)
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Deep Blue is a book about things that go wrong at sea (and under the sea), and what happens when they do. It features the best writing from the literature of shipwrecks, nautical survival, and cannibalism as well as tales of submarine adventure including an excerpt from Peter Maas's The Terrible Hours. In addition to such authors as Neil Hanson and Gary Kinder, Deep Blue includes classic writers like Melville, Conrad, and Crane, perennials such as Patrick O'Brian and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and far-flung, little-known surprises, from free divers in trouble to arctic explorers fatally marooned in the marshes of Siberia.
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From The Nutmeg of Consolation / by Patrick O'Brian -- Everest at the bottom of the sea / by Buck McMahon -- From North to the night / by Alvah Simon -- From The boat who wouldn't float / by Farley Mowat -- From Treasure Island / by Robert Louis Stevenson -- From Philip Ashton's Own account / by Philip Ashton -- From Run silent, run deep / by Edward L. Beach -- From Pincher Martin / by William Golding -- From N by E / by Rockwell Kent -- From Moby Dick / by Herman Melville -- From In the heart of the sea/ by Nathaniel Philbrick -- The open boat / by Stephen Crane -- From Every man for himself / by Beryl Bainbridge.