Three Miles Down - Softcover

Hamilton-Paterson, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099586916 ISBN 13: 9780099586913

Publisher: Vintage, 1999

Synopsis

Somewhere on the seabed of the Atlantic ocean lie two casualties of the Second World War: a Japanese submarine, the I-52 and the liner SS Aurelia. Separated by almost a thousand miles of ocean and sunk more than fifteen months apart, these two vessels have one thing in common - they were both carrying several tons of gold. In October 1994, James Hamilton-Patterson was invited to join Project Orca, a team of people who set out to try and find the wrecks and the gold. This book is so much more than a tale of a hunt for 'filthy lucre'. James Hamilton-Patterson gives one of the rare eye-witness accounts by a non-scientist of what it is like to free-fall to the seabed for three hours in a tiny sphere two metres in diameter, and spend the next fourteen hours drifting about in a lightless world of dunes and outcrops. It is thus a priviledged view of a primordial world full of unexpected beauty and resonance: an eerie but awe-inspiring world of shadows.

About this title

Synopsis:

In this work Hamilton-Paterson, who was invited to join Project Orca, a team of people who set out to find wrecks and their gold, chronicles the tensions which arose between British 'buccaneers' and their Russians hosts who, in the aftermath of the collapse of communism, have resentful

About the Author:

James Hamilton-Paterson's most recent novel, Ghosts of Manila (published in paperback by Vinatge) was shortlisted for the Whitbread Ficitoon Prize. His work has been published in many languages.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0099586916
• ISBN 13: 9780099586913
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256