You itch to get on with the treasure hunt. But you read these chapters a little impatiently. Sinking of the Central America in harrowing and often poignant detail. Two days after a stopover in Havana, the ship ran into what was described at the time as a storm "of almost unprecedented fury and violence" and eventually sank.ĭrawing on the extensive testimony of eyewitnesses and survivors, Kinder ("Victim: The Other Side of Murder" and "Light Years: An Investigation of the Extraterrestrial Experiences of Eduard Meier") has reconstructed the The narrative begins with the discovery in January 1848 of the gold nugget at John Sutter's sawmill that brought on the California Gold Rush.įrom there the story jumps to September 1857 and the journey from Panama to New York of the Central America, a side-wheel steamer carrying nearly 600 passengers returning from the Gold Rush and some 21 tons of California gold worth at the Know that the searchers are eventually going to hit it very big. He moment you start reading Gary Kinder's spellbinding story of a suboceanic treasure hunt, "Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea," you JBOOKS OF THE TIMES / By CHRISTOPHER LEHMANN-HAUPT 'Ship of Gold': A Treasure Tale Tempered by Scienceīy Gary Kinder. 'Ship of Gold': A Treasure Tale Tempered by Science
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