To Come

Shipwrecks and Lost Treasures

Outer Banks : Legends And Lore, Pirates And More!

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

History and folklore abound in these twenty-five true stories about lost ships along North Carolina's storm-washed Outer Banks. Learn the haunting tales of wrecked vessels such as the steam packet Pulaski in 1838, the Pocahantas in 1862, the Virginia in 1900 and, of course, the ongoing search for the pirate ship of Blackbeard, among many others.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 325g
• ISBN-13: 9780762745074
• ISBN-10: 076274507X
• Artikelnr.: 22736279

Autorenporträt

By To Come - Illustrated by Paul G. Hoffman

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction1
Horsing Around (Enterprize
1822)2
Negligence at Sea (William Gibbons
1836)3
Canine to the Rescue (Carroll
1837)4
Racer's Storm (Home
1837)5
Shipboard Romance (Steam Packet Pulaski
1838)6
Of Human Flesh (Orline St. John
1854)7
The Plight of the Drunken Captain (Pocahontas
1862)8
The Lifesaving Widow (Nuova Ottavia
1875)9
Bad Luck Friday (Huron
1877)10
A Ship by Any Other Name (Metropolis
1878)11
The Christmas That Wasn't (City of Houston
1878)12
Mysterious Circumstances (M. & E. Henderson
1879)13
Against the Tide (Angela
1883)14
A Cold December Night (Nellie Wadsworth
1885)15
Eighty Hours on High (Henry P. Simmons
1889)16
Disaster Strikes (Strathairly
1891)17
The Times They are a Changin' (Nathan Esterbrook
1893)18
A Trusting Man (Richard S. Spofford
1894)19
Accomplishing the Impossible (E.S. Newman
1896)20
Timbers in the Surf (George L. Fessenden
1898)21
The Midgetts of Hatteras (Aaron Reppard
1899)22
Breakers Ahead (Virginia
1900)23
Daring Do (Sarah D.J. Rawson
1905)24
An Unsolved Riddle (Carroll A. Deering
1921)25
In Search of Blackbeard's TreasureGlossary