GHOST SHIP: THE MYSTERIOUS TRUE STORY OF THE MARY CELESTE AND HER MISSING CREW
Book ID/图书代码： 01240004B04853
English Summary/英文概要： On December 4th, 1872, a 100-foot brigantine was discovered drifting through the North Atlantic without a soul on board. Not a sign of struggle, not a shred of damage, no ransacked cargo—and not a trace of the captain, his wife and daughter, or the crew. What happened on board the ghost ship Mary Celeste has baffled and tantalized the world for 130 years. In his stunning new book, award-winning journalist Brian Hicks plumbs the depths of this fabled nautical mystery and finally uncovers the truth.
The Mary Celeste was cursed as soon as she was launched on the Bay of Fundy in the spring of 1861. Her first captain died before completing the maiden voyage. In London she accidentally rammed and sank an English brig. Later she was abandoned after a storm drove her ashore at Cape Breton. But somehow the ship was recovered and refitted, and in the autumn of 1872 she fell to the reluctant command of a seasoned mariner named Benjamin Spooner Briggs. It was Briggs who was at the helm when the Mary Celeste sailed into history.
In Brian Hicks’s skilled hands, the story of the Mary Celeste becomes the quintessential tale of men lost at sea. Hicks vividly recreates the events leading up to the crew’s disappearance and then unfolds the complicated and bizarre aftermath—the dark suspicions that fell on the officers of the ship that intercepted her; the farcical Admiralty Court salvage hearing in Gibraltar; the wild myths that circulated after Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published a thinly disguised short story sensationalizing the mystery. Everything from a voodoo curse to an alien abduction has been hauled out to explain the fate of the Mary Celeste. But, as Brian Hicks reveals, the truth is actually grounded in the combined tragedies of human error and bad luck. The story of the Mary Celeste acquired yet another twist in 2001, when a team of divers funded by novelist Clive Cussler located the wreck in a coral reef off Haiti.
Written with the suspense of a thriller and the vivid accuracy of the best popular history, Ghost Ship tells the unforgettable true story of the most famous and most fascinating maritime mystery of all time.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 1872年12月4日在北大西洋发现了一艘名为Mary Celeste 的游船在海上漂浮。而船上却一个人也没有,而且出现了许多令人不解的场面 ：
1. 船只的风帆正随风飘扬,表示有「人]正扬帆,使船只顺风而行；
2. 船仓内的一千七百桶洋酒,只有一桶是开启过的,其他 均丝毫无损；
3. 餐桌上留有半份早餐 ；
4. 船只完好无缺，既无任何打斗的痕迹, 又无任何被雷电或风浪侵袭的显示 。
最耐人寻味的,是船上所有的人,包括：船长Briggs夫妇和他们的女儿及七个船员音讯杳然，有如人间蒸发......究竟发生了什么事呢，作者BRIAN HICKS将带你踏上一段神秘而诡异的冒险之旅。
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About the Author/作者介绍： 作者Brian Hicks在此之前已写过两部关于海上的著作,一部是Raising the Hunley: The Remarkable History and Recovery of the Lost Confederate Submarine，还有一部是The Story of the World’s Longest Race（世界上最长的航行），现与他的妻子和儿子居住在查尔斯顿。
Format:HARDCOVER
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