Deep Blue: Stories of Shipwreck, Sunken Treasure, and Survival (Adrenaline) [Paperback]

Nate Hardcastle (Author), Clint Willis (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 10, 2001 | Series: Adrenaline

Deep Blue is a book about things that go wrong at sea (and under the sea), and what happens when they do. It features the best writing from the literature of shipwrecks, nautical survival, and cannibalism as well as tales of submarine adventure including an excerpt from Peter Maas's The Terrible Hours. In addition to such authors as Neil Hanson and Gary Kinder, Deep Blue includes classic writers like Melville, Conrad, and Crane, perennials such as Patrick O'Brian and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and far-flung, little-known surprises, from free divers in trouble to arctic explorers fatally marooned in the marshes of Siberia.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

From the Titanic nightmare to Robinson Crusoe's deserted island fantasy, shipwrecks have long been an obsession of adventure literature. The latest in Avalon's outdoor adventure series, Deep Blue: Stories of Shipwreck, Sunken Treasure and Survival presents 13 tales of the sea's treachery. Genre fans will have already read pieces by Herman Melville and Robert Louis Stevenson, but newer writing from Bucky McMahon, Farley Mowat, Patrick O'Brian and William Golding, as well as firsthand accounts from survivors like Philip Ashton and Rockwell Kent, also appear. Most of the work was previously published elsewhere, so the collection, by Adrenaline editors Nate Hardcastle and Clint Willis (who edited Epic: Stories of Survival from the World's Highest Peaks), though high-quality, breaks little new ground. 15 b&w photos. ( Aug.)
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Review

"Armchair adventurers would be pleased with any of the new "Adrenaline" recordings from Listen & Live Audio..." -- Philadelphia Inquirer

"Listen & Live's Adrenaline Series is one of the best in the genre." -- The Denver Post

"Listeners will find it hard to turn this off before the end of any of its stories." -- AudioFile --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Da Capo Press (May 10, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1560253134
• ISBN-13: 978-1560253136
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,133,137 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A disappointment . . ., July 4, 2001

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Andrew Entwistle (Schodack, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Deep Blue: Stories of Shipwreck, Sunken Treasure, and Survival (Adrenaline) (Paperback)

As a collector of the entire series, no one awaited this book more than I. I feel let down. Of the 13 stories, (and it's only 318 pages, not 352), seven are fiction. These were not well chosen: selections from Treasure Island and Moby Dick are not even set at sea, but are the land-based openings of the books. The non-fiction does not live up to the billing of the editorial reviews that preceded it on this page. There is not much shipwreck or survivial: several are more like philosophical essays as opposed to stories with an edge. The story on diving the Andrea Doria is perhaps the best in the book, but many of us will have seen it elsewhere, as it is recent. Why a fictional account of the Titanic and not a true one? For a book on treasure, why nothing of Mel Fisher and the Atocha? If you want sea adventure, the earlier book in the series, Rough Water, delivers a bigger punch. This volume, regratably, is one that you can put down between stories.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars More adrenaline, please, June 4, 2001

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Dawn Witt (Goodyear, AZ United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Deep Blue: Stories of Shipwreck, Sunken Treasure, and Survival (Adrenaline) (Paperback)

As a passive individual, I live through the words and experiences of first hand authors for my adventure. This narrative simply scratches the surface of those before it. "Ship of Gold", "The Fatal North" and "Abandon Ship!" come to mind immediately as adrenaline rush examples. Any of the several publications on "The Endurance" far exceed the expectations of "Deep Blue". The human spirit has greater tales to tell.