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Rocket Men
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The riveting inside story of three heroic astronauts who took on the challenge of mankind’s historic first mission to the Moon, from the bestselling author of Shadow Divers. “Robert Kurson tells the tale of Apollo 8 with novelistic detail and immediacy.”—Andy Weir, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Martian and Artemis By August 1968, the American space program was in danger of failing in its two most important objectives: to land a man on the Moon by President Kennedy’s end-of-decade deadline, and to triumph over the Soviets in space. With its back against the wall, NASA made an almost unimaginable leap: It would scrap its usual methodical ap...
Crashing Through
In his critically acclaimed bestseller Shadow Divers, Robert Kurson explored the depths of history, friendship, and compulsion. Now Kurson returns with another thrilling adventure–the stunning true story of one man’s heroic odyssey from blindness into sight. Mike May spent his life crashing through. Blinded at age three, he defied expectations by breaking world records in downhill speed skiing, joining the CIA, and becoming a successful inventor, entrepreneur, and family man. He had never yearned for vision. Then, in 1999, a chance encounter brought startling news: a revolutionary stem cell transplant surgery could restore May’s vision. It would allow him to drive, to read, to see his ...
Rocket Men
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The riveting inside story of three heroic astronauts who took on the challenge of mankind’s historic first mission to the Moon, from the bestselling author of Shadow Divers. “Robert Kurson tells the tale of Apollo 8 with novelistic detail and immediacy.”—Andy Weir, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Martian and Artemis By August 1968, the American space program was in danger of failing in its two most important objectives: to land a man on the Moon by President Kennedy’s end-of-decade deadline, and to triumph over the Soviets in space. With its back against the wall, NASA made an almost unimaginable leap: It would scrap its usual methodical ap...
Pirate Hunters
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY CHICAGO TRIBUNE • A thrilling adventure of danger and deep-sea diving, historic mystery and suspense, by the author of Shadow Divers Finding and identifying a pirate ship is the hardest thing to do under the sea. But two men—John Chatterton and John Mattera—are willing to risk everything to find the Golden Fleece, the ship of the infamous pirate Joseph Bannister. At large during the Golden Age of Piracy in the seventeenth century, Bannister should have been immortalized in the lore of the sea—his exploits more notorious than Blackbeard’s, more daring than Kidd’s. But his story, and his ship, have been lost t...
Summary of Robert Kurson's Shadow Divers
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Brielle, New Jersey, is the place where the boat captains and fishermen live. It is also the place where the hangers-on and wannabes and also-rans keep believing in the sea. #2 Nagle’s area of expertise was the New York and New Jersey shipping lanes, which saw a lot of traffic in the 1970s and 1980s. The wrecks there rarely yielded treasure, but they often yielded stories that fascinated Nagle. #3 Deep-wreck divers, like Nagle, had to brave the unknown depths of the ocean floor. They had to discover all of their discoveries by themselves, without any maps or directions. #4 The Andrea Doria was the Mount Everest of shipwrecks. It was not a typical target for Nagle, since her location was widely known and she had been explored by divers since the day after her sinking. But the Doria made siren calls to great wreck divers.
Summary of Robert Kurson's Pirate Hunters
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 John Chatterton and John Mattera were planning a treasure hunt, and they had already moved to the Dominican Republic to start it. They met with Tracy Bowden, a legendary treasure hunter, who showed them coins and artifacts from shipwrecks he’d worked on. #2 In the seventeenth century, a well-respected English sea captain named Joseph Bannister stole the great ship he commanded, the Golden Fleece, and embarked on a pirating rampage. He became one of the most wanted men in the Caribbean. The harder the English tried to stop him, the more ingeniously he defied them. #3 Bowden believed he knew the location of the Golden Fleece, a pirate ship that had sunk off Cayo Levantado in the Dominican Republic. He offered to give Chatterton and Mattera 20 percent of the treasure if they found it. They could never accept his offer, as they knew they could never betray Bowden. #4 The two partners had trained for two years to find treasure, and spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on boats and equipment. They had put together a crew, and had nearly gotten into gunfights in wild but beautiful places.
Summary of Robert Kurson's Rocket Men
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 In 1961, President John F. Kennedy committed the United States to landing a man on the Moon by the end of the decade. The Soviet Union was close to landing its own crew on the Moon, which mattered because the nation that landed the first men on the Moon would win the Space Race and be in position to land a man on the Moon first. #2 Borman was in charge of testing the command module, and he was scheduled to do so until NASA officials decided to send him back to Houston. His crewmates were stuck with the module. #3 The last time Borman had received a drop everything call was the darkest day in NASA’s history, when a fire broke out in the command module during a simulated countdown on the launchpad in Florida. The three astronauts died in the fire. #4 In 1967, Borman was called to testify before Congress about the cause of the fire. He was offered the opportunity to take temporary leave from the astronaut program to head up the team tasked with implementing design changes to the command module.
The Last Dive
A tragic account of the father-son dive team who met with disaster while exploring the wreck of a German U-boat off the coast of New York. Chris and Chrissy Rouse, an experienced father-and-son scuba diving team, hoped to achieve widespread recognition for their outstanding but controversial diving skills. Obsessed and ambitious, they sought to solve the secrets of a mysterious, undocumented World War II German U-boat that lay under 230 feet of water, only a half-day’s mission from New York Harbor. In doing so, they paid the ultimate price in their quest for fame. Bernie Chowdhury, himself an expert diver and a close friend of the Rouses’, explores the thrill-seeking world of deep-sea di...
The Official Three Stooges Encyclopedia
Filled with more than 1,400 entries, jokes, and key gags, this deluxe collector's volume showcases the Stooges in all their zany, absurd glory. 200+ photos.
Titanic's Last Secrets
After rewriting history with their discovery of a Nazi U-boat off the coast of New Jersey, legendary divers John Chatterton and Richie Kohler decided to investigate the great enduring mystery of history's most notorious shipwreck: Why did Titanic sink as quickly as it did? To answer the question, Chatterton and Kohler assemble a team of experts to explore Titanic, study its engineering, and dive to the wreck of its sister ship, Brittanic, where Titanic's last secrets may be revealed. Titanic's Last Secrets is a rollercoaster ride through the shipbuilding history, the transatlantic luxury liner business, and shipwreck forensics. Chatterton and Kohler weave their way through a labyrinth of clu...
