The 2000 raising of the Confederate submarine Hunley made national
headlines. Here, then, are more true tales of sea- and land-going adventures, as
Cussler and his crews set out to track down history. The famous ghost ship Mary
Celeste, found floating off the Azores in 1872 with no one on board; the
Carpathia, the ship that rescued the 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, and even a dirigible, prove tantalizing targets as
Cussler demonstrates again that truth can be "at least as fun, and sometimes
stranger, than fiction.
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