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America's lost treasure / Tommy Thompson.

Title
America's lost treasure / Tommy Thompson.
Author
Thompson, Tommy, 1952-
Publication
New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 1998.

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Description
191 p. : maps; 28 x 27 cm.
Summary
"Pictorial account of the sinking and recovery of the United States Mail Steamship, Central America. The sinking of the Central America in a hurricane in 1857, was America's worst peacetime sea disaster. The ship was recovered in 1989, in an operation that developed the most groundbreaking marine-recovery technology in existence". -- Jacket.
Subject
  • Central America (Ship) > Pictorial works
  • Shipwrecks > North Atlantic Ocean > Pictorial works
  • Treasure troves > Pictorial works
  • Shipwreck survival > Pictorial works
Genre/Form
Pictorial works
Note
  • Includes index.
  • "A Roundtable press book."
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The country comes of age, 1837-1863 -- Last voyage -- Explorers of the deep -- Gold discovered -- Time capsules -- Science in the deep.
ISBN
0871137321
LCCN
^^^98038902^
OCLC
  • 39728073
  • SCSB-12030185
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library