{"title":"Brian Hicks","description":"Brian Hicks, a senior writer with The Post and Courier in Charleston, South Carolina, is the co-author of two previous books on maritime subjects: Raising the Hunley: The Remarkable History and Recovery of the Lost Confederate Submarine and Into the Wind: The Story of the World's Longest Race. The recipient of the South Carolina Press Association's award for Journalist of the Year, Hicks lives in Charleston with his wife and their son.","products":[{"product_id":"when-the-dancing-stopped-the-real-story-of-the-morro-castle-disaster-and-its-deadly-wake-paperback","title":"When the Dancing Stopped: The Real Story of the Morro Castle Disaster and Its Deadly Wake - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eDuring the dark days of the Great Depression, thousands of weary souls escaped their bleak lives for a week of paradise aboard the Ward Line's glamorous cruise ship, the Morro Castle. 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Award-winning author Brian Hicks, using newly declassified FBI files, thousands of pages of investigation notes, testimony, and new interviews, takes the reader on a mid-century cruise through history, revealing a cold-case file that had been, until now, left unsolved for history. 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It was not until he was twenty-two, when he fought alongside \"his people\" against the Creek Indians, a neighboring rebel tribe, that he knew the Cherokees' fate would be his. Cherokee chief for forty years, he would guide the tribe through, its most turbulent period. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs increasing numbers of whites settled illegally on the Cherokee Nation's native land, including Ross's beloved home at Head of Coosa, the chief remained steadfast in his refusal to sign a treaty agreeing to removal. 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Not a sign of struggle, not a shred of damage, no ransacked cargo--and not a trace of the captain, his wife and daughter, or the crew. What happened on board the ghost ship \u003ci\u003eMary Celeste\u003c\/i\u003e has baffled and tantalized the world for 130 years. In his stunning new book, award-winning journalist Brian Hicks plumbs the depths of this fabled nautical mystery and finally uncovers the truth. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eMary Celeste\u003c\/i\u003e was cursed as soon as she was launched on the Bay of Fundy in the spring of 1861. Her first captain died before completing the maiden voyage. In London she accidentally rammed and sank an English brig. Later she was abandoned after a storm drove her ashore at Cape Breton. But somehow the ship was recovered and refitted, and in the autumn of 1872 she fell to the reluctant command of a seasoned mariner named Benjamin Spooner Briggs. 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The story of the \u003ci\u003eMary Celeste\u003c\/i\u003e acquired yet another twist in 2001, when a team of divers funded by novelist Clive Cussler located the wreck in a coral reef off Haiti. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten with the suspense of a thriller and the vivid accuracy of the best popular history, \u003ci\u003eGhost Ship\u003c\/i\u003e tells the unforgettable true story of the most famous and most fascinating maritime mystery of all time.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn December 4th, 1872, a 100-foot brigantine was discovered drifting through the North Atlantic without a soul on board. Not a sign of struggle, not a shred of damage, no ransacked cargo--and not a trace of the captain, his wife and daughter, or the crew. What happened on board the ghost ship \"Mary Celeste has baffled and tantalized the world for 130 years. In his stunning new book, award-winning journalist Brian Hicks plumbs the depths of this fabled nautical mystery and finally uncovers the truth. \u003cbr\u003eThe \"Mary Celeste was cursed as soon as she was launched on the Bay of Fundy in the spring of 1861. Her first captain died before completing the maiden voyage. In London she accidentally rammed and sank an English brig. Later she was abandoned after a storm drove her ashore at Cape Breton. But somehow the ship was recovered and refitted, and in the autumn of 1872 she fell to the reluctant command of a seasoned mariner named Benjamin Spooner Briggs. It was Briggs who was at the helm when the \"Mary Celeste sailed into history. \u003cbr\u003eIn Brian Hicks's skilled hands, the story of the \"Mary Celeste becomes the quintessential tale of men lost at sea. Hicks vividly recreates the events leading up to the crew's disappearance and then unfolds the complicated and bizarre aftermath--the dark suspicions that fell on the officers of the ship that intercepted her; the farcical Admiralty Court salvage hearing in Gibraltar; the wild myths that circulated after Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published a thinly disguised short story sensationalizing the mystery. Everything from a voodoo curse to an alien abduction has been hauled out to explain the fate of the \"Mary Celeste. But, as Brian Hicks reveals, the truth isactually grounded in the combined tragedies of human error and bad luck. The story of the \"Mary Celeste acquired yet another twist in 2001, when a team of divers funded by novelist Clive Cussler located the wreck in a coral reef off Haiti. \u003cbr\u003eWritten with the suspense of a thriller and the vivid accuracy of the best popular history, \"Ghost Ship tells the unforgettable true story of the most famous and most fascinating maritime mystery of all time. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"From the Hardcover edition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51368248017119,"sku":"9780345466655","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/JD8wVL9nqP9780345466655.webp?v=1789125105"},{"product_id":"raising-the-hunley-the-remarkable-history-and-recovery-of-the-lost-confederate-submarine-paperback","title":"Raising the Hunley: The Remarkable History and Recovery of the Lost Confederate Submarine - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe history of the Confederate submarine \u003ci\u003eH. 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