Tells the story of the discovery and salvage of seventeen sunken treasure ships of the twentieth century, and provides information about the scientific technology used to locate the wrecks, and the people involved in the recovery efforts.
Contains facts and statistics about the voyage and sinking of the "Titanic"; includes accounts of other sea disasters and information on how the ship was built, what caused it to sink, how the wreckage was found, and other related topics.
Explores the impact of the Titanic disaster on twentieth-century culture and society, discussing its influence over a variety of communication media, and the media's role in immortalizing the story.
Complete and unabridged. A shipwrecked family learns to subsist on the natural endowments of the island --to live by their own ingenuity. They refused to leave when a ship arrived to take them home.
A girl named Jolly has come to believe that she is the only survivor of a generation of children rumored to be able to walk on the water, and now she must put her powers to use after a shipwreck forces her to flee without her shipmates.