Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea
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In 1857 the SS Central America sank off the California coast. This is the right account of the search for one of the world’s most fabled shipwrecks that led to the recovery of over half a billion dollars worth of gold and the astonishing scientific breakthroughs that customary man’s first effective presence on the deep-sea frontier.Amazon.com Review
The full horror as the mighty Central American, a ship carrying nearly 600 people and a wealth of gold, sank in a “perfect hurricane” in 1857 is brilliantly re-made in the audio version of Ship of Gold. Gary Kinder’s book cries out for audio interpretation due to its plenty of dramatic descriptions from that hellish night. “The hoarse screams of 500 men rose as she started a slow watery spin–the water turning quicker and quicker and quicker until the swirling vortex sucked the men into a suffocating darkness with the once majestic steamer.” Bruce Davison delivers Kinder’s rich, descriptive narrative with appropriate drama and flair. It is truly a delight to hear this incredible tale read out loud. The chilling testimonies of passengers and crew are also convincingly re-enacted by Davison, who assumes the voices of frightened young women, exhausted crew men, and the steadfast voice of the courageous Captain Herndon as he fights to keep his ship afloat. Davison is rather soft spoken, which makes for a pleasant listening experience, especially because the tapes run for five hours.
It really is impossible not to become fully engrossed in this fascinating tale of a ship’s demise, and the subsequent operation to recover her treasure some 130 years later. (Running time: five hours, four cassettes) –Naomi Gesinger
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This nonfiction treasure-hunting tale is at times extemely appealing and entralling, particularly the past recreation of the diasaster that befell the Central America, but drags interminably through the parts dealing with the extraordinarily uninteresting character biographical development of the treasure hunter(s). More and more, as one reads, one could hardly care who the treasure hunters are. As the treasure unfolds and is recovered, one waits hopelessly for real details and past perspective on the discoveries, and what one gets are how the team leader has micro-managed the project on this or that irrlevant undersea photo opportunity. Becase this book loses its way from the history and treasure after an awasome start along persons lines, it became a trmendous disappintment. One hopes that a name will write a follow-up that completes the tale in a more satisfying way.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
this book starts with a riveting account of the Central America and its demise; about a quarter of the book. The book then founders miserably in an undiscriminating tide of details and people who turn out to be UNrelated to the recovery attempt! By the time we get to the excavation of the gold, (the very last chapters) i felt as if the book had sunk to the depths of the ocean along with the Central America.
i’m a very disappointed that so few books are edited carefully these days. this book holds more potential than it lived up to.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This book is primarily of interest in providing insights to the heart of a treasure hunter and salvager — and the picture isn’t very pretty. Even though leader Kinder couldn’t be kinder in his depiction of Thompson, he emerges from the tale as a ruthless and egomaniacal looter of a historic treasure. Thompson uses his job at a university to renovate his own treasure-hunting devices, then quits his job (after not performing it) to ensure that the university has no aver to the equipment Thompson developed while on its payroll. Thompson nearly kills a member of his crew by waiting to recover his ROV after a storm hits his salvage vessel. Thompson, driven by paranoid fears, won’t let the crew he has terrorized even see the treasure that is being recovered. This is not the portrait of an “unsung hero,” as another reviewer puts it. This is the tale of a man that only an investor could like.
The most worthwhile service performed by this book is the contrast it offers between Thompson, practically a caricature of the ruthless treasure hunter, and legitimate underwater explorers and archaeologists such as Bob Ballard. Sadly, though, the leader treats his theme with kid gloves and glosses over this contrast as systematically as he glosses over the honor between salvage and archaeology.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
A single line abstract of this book would read: They had the brass to get the gold, but their efforts were socially leaden.
The tale of the Central America is one of past tragedy, modern greed, and high stakes. It demonstrates that no cultural or past resource is safe from venture capitalism, equipment, and the ethically impaired. Much of this book glorifies the egos that resulted in the raiding of an historic grave site for profit. Nonetheless, it is a fascinating read filled with gee whiz equipment, and pot boiler romance of the sea.
Lightly veneered with past information as a means to distract the reader from the main point, raiding the past for present profit, the book is entirely devoid of photographs, maps or drawings (with the exception of the period print of the wreck and one page of ship’s plans). One has to marvel where the editors were. At least no one will be flawed into thinking that this was a reliable undertaking.
It is an absol! ute that any book may and should be written about any topic that an leader can imagine. It is also a agreed that such materials should be made available in a free society. But the rest of us do not have to buy it.
My recommendation on this book is: don’t.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Is this supposed to be the biography of a “mad” scientist or the tale of a treasure hunt? I kept waiting for the excellent stuff, but it never came. Read this in bed in the evening and it certainly didn’t keep me awake.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5