《ghost ship》是2005年Random House US出版社出版的圖書，作者是Brian Hicks。
基本介紹
- 書名：ghost ship
- 作者：Brian Hicks
- 出版社：Random House US出版社
- ISBN：9780345466655
內容簡介
On December 4th, 1872, a 100-foot brigantine was discovereddrifting through the North Atlantic without a soul on board. Not asign of struggle, not a shred of damage, no ransacked cargo—and nota trace of the captain, his wife and daughter, or the crew. Whathappened on board the ghost ship Mary Celeste has baffled andtantalized the world for 130 years. In his stunning new book,award-winning journalist Brian Hicks plumbs the depths of thisfabled nautical mystery and finally uncovers the truth.The Mary Celeste was cursed as soon as she was launched on theBay of Fundy in the spring of 1861. Her first captain died beforecompleting the maiden voyage. In London she accidentally rammed andsank an English brig. Later she was abandoned after a storm droveher ashore at Cape Breton. But somehow the ship was recovered andrefitted, and in the autumn of 1872 she fell to the reluctantcommand of a seasoned mariner named Benjamin Spooner Briggs. It wasBriggs who was at the helm when the Mary Celeste sailed intohistory.In Brian Hicks’s skilled hands, the story of the Mary Celestebecomes the quintessential tale of men lost at sea. Hicks vividlyrecreates the events leading up to the crew’s disappearance andthen unfolds the complicated and bizarre aftermath—the darksuspicions that fell on the officers of the ship that interceptedher; the farcical Admiralty Court salvage hearing in Gibraltar; thewild myths that circulated after Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published athinly disguised short story sensationalizing the mystery.Everything from a voodoo curse to an alien abduction has beenhauled out to explain the fate of the Mary Celeste. But, as BrianHicks reveals, the truth is actually grounded in the combinedtragedies of human error and bad luck. The story of the MaryCeleste acquired yet another twist in 2001, when a team of diversfundWritten with the suspense of a thriller and the vivid accuracy ofthe best popular history, Ghost Ship tells the unforgettable truestory of the most famous and most fascinating maritime mystery ofall time.From the Hardcover edition.
