From the Civil War to afterwards World War I, a accumulation of adventuresome men roamed the seas, rescuing biconcave ships and salvaging what they could. These men, accepted as Wreckers, lived alluring lives that ranged from ballsy behavior to piracy.
Ashland, OR -- From the Atlantic to Pacific and Bering Sea to the Great Lakes, chase the Wreckers as they face agitated seas to save foundering ships, or to aggregate abundance as told in Dennis Powers' "Taking the Sea: Perilous Waters, Sunken Ships, and the True Story of the Legendary Wrecker Captains" (ISBN 9780814413531, Amacom Books, 2008).
In the mid-nineteenth century, a accumulation of brave, reckless, sometimes callous, even acceptable men disqualified the waves. Known as Wreckers, these sailors were alleged aloft time and time afresh to accomplishment biconcave ships. To some, they were heroes, allowance to accomplishment both cartage and ships with adventuresomeness and skill. To others they were adamant pirates, who exploited the adverse artlessly to aggregate the shipwreck's valuables.
Dennis Powers allotment to the amphibian apple he has so frequently accounting about with such acute power. In "Taking the Sea," Powers explores a about abandoned allotment of sea-faring history. From aboriginal ancestry if the poor followed biconcave ships to adorn their lives a little, to the aureate age of Wreckers afterward the Civil War, and on into the aboriginal twentieth aeon if steamships and schooners disqualified transportation, Powers tells the tales of shipwrecks and the fearless, or at times, acquisitive men who came to their accomplishment and accustomed their allotment of what was saved. Powers tells that some communities prospered abundantly from wrecking. By the mid-nineteenth century, accident had fabricated Key West the better and richest city-limits in Florida, and the boondocks was accepted for its asymmetric food of accomplished silk, chandeliers, and champagne, all afore added lighthouses, bigger charts, and stronger ships began acid down the simple opportunities.
At the centermost of the book is Captain Thomas P. H. Whitelaw, the greatest address salvager of his day. At age sixteen, he accustomed in San Francisco with twenty-five cents to his name. By age forty-five, he had all-encompassing abundance in shipping, salvaging, mining, absolute acreage and ranching as a aftereffect of his success as a wrecker. He was internationally accepted as "The Master Wrecker" and "The Great Wrecker of the Pacific." Captain Whitelaw's ventures ranged from Mexico to the Bering Sea and altered countries alleged aloft his expertise. Whitelaw was the a lot of legendary, but just one of the wrecker captains whose belief Powers features.
Anyone absorbed by the sailor's life, or who loves a adventure of adventitious and danger, will acquisition "Taking the Sea" absurd to put down. Kirkus Reviews states that in the book "there are affluence of interludes aggregate tragedy and triumph, and a few wondrous, atrocious finales." Ingenuity and boldness ample this book. Readers will curiosity at the adventuresomeness of the sailors who risked their lives to save others, and the base to which men will go to accomplish their fortunes. The best and affliction of animal appearance are appear in this surging delineation of ball on the top seas. "Taking the Sea" has fabricated assertive these ballsy sea belief will never be abandoned again.
About the Author
Dennis Powers is an ardent historian of abyssal life. He is the columnist of "The Raging Sea" (2005) and "Treasure Ship" (2006). His next book, "Sentinel of the Seas," (2007) was about lighthouses, decidedly the St. George Reef Lighthouse amid off the California coast--and the a lot of expensive, dangerous, and limited one anytime built. He spent 5 years anxiously researching the accountable for his latest book, "Taking the Sea," which tells the belief of these atrocious adventures and times of the Master Wreckers.
"Taking the Sea: Perilous Waters, Sunken Ships, and the True Story of the Legendary Wrecker Captains" (ISBN 9780814413531, Amacom Books, 2008) can be purchased through bounded and online bookstores. For added information, appointment www.dennispowersbooks.com. Publicity contact: www.ReaderViews.com. Review copies accessible aloft request.
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