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Shipwrecks : exploring sunken cities beneath the sea

Author: Mary M Cerullo
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Dutton Children's Books, ©2009.
Edition/Format:   Book : Juvenile audience : English : 1st ed
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An exploration of two strikingly different shipwrecks. For those who know how to interpret its secrets, a sunken ship has many tales to tell. The stories of the lives of those aboard its last voyage are revealed in the objects scattered around the shipwreck. Then there are the stories of the many ocean creatures that have found a home inside the broken hull. Two shipwrecks, separated by two thousand miles and two  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Juvenile literature
Material Type: Juvenile audience
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Mary M Cerullo
ISBN: 9780525479680 0525479686
OCLC Number: 272306383
Notes: Includes index.
Awards: A Junior Library Guild selection
Description: 64 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 23 x 26 cm.
Contents: A ship reborn --
Beneath tropical seas --
Coral community creates a sunken city --
Beneath New England waves --
A sanctuary within a sanctuary --
Murder, mystery, and marine life.
Responsibility: Mary M. Cerullo.

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An exploration of two strikingly different shipwrecks. For those who know how to interpret its secrets, a sunken ship has many tales to tell. The stories of the lives of those aboard its last voyage are revealed in the objects scattered around the shipwreck. Then there are the stories of the many ocean creatures that have found a home inside the broken hull. Two shipwrecks, separated by two thousand miles and two centuries, share a common history of life, death, and rebirth. The first is the Henrietta Marie, a slave trader that sank off Florida in 1700; the second, an elegant steamer with crew members from a thriving middle-class black community in Maine. Each of their stories starts with underwater exploration, one a search for fabled gold, the other for families lost at sea. Find out what underwater explorers discovered in these sunken cities beneath the sea.

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by AnchorageSchools (WorldCat user published 2010-04-28) Very Good Permalink

This book is about two shipwrecked. Not only separated by time but also by the cargos they carried; dark-skinned human life sold into bondage and the other extreme, upholding human life in high regard. Last the sea creatures that came to call these submerged ships home. Filled with beautiful photographs...
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