First edition. 8vo. Hardcover in dustjacket. Has small remainder mark. Very good in very good dustjacket. Dustjacket has slight discoloring bottom of spine. A captivating account of the gold age of piracy, the search for sunken treasure, and the business of underwater exploration. ISBN 0060192321.

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Title

Expedition Whydah: The Story of the World's First Excavation of a Pirate Treasure Ship and the Man Who Found Her

Publisher

Cliff Street Books, New York

Publication Date

1999

Language

English

ISBN 10

0060192321

ISBN 13

9780060192327

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

First Edition

Condition

Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition

Very Good

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Synopsis

The companion to a National Geographic television special chronicles the author's life-long quest to find and salvage the priceless cargo of the pirate ship Whydah, which sank off the shores of Cape Cod in 1717. TV tie-in. 75,000 first printing. Tour.

Review

"An adventurer, enchanted since his youth by pirate Black Sam Bellamy's role in the "Whydah shipwreck, realizes his destiny is to find the "Whydah and its treasure. ...The real-life story is full of entertaining detail: pirate history, nautical, lore, the dangerous work of sea salvage."--"Boston Magazine"Readers drawn into the dangerous straits of this quest will find themselves exhilarated as the pirate ship at last yields up her secrets."--"National Geographic Adventure Magazine"Teems with a wealth of insight into life on the high seas as Clifford reveals all you would ever want to know about Bellamy's adventures...Clifford's search for the "Whydah makes for an entertaining tale: that of a likable rogue moving ever closer to uncovering the history of a long gone, a time when pirates roamed the eastern seaboard proud and free."--"Boston Herald

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