Graveyard of the Pacific
Shipwreck and Survival on America’s Deadliest Waterway
$36.77
- Hardcover
272 pages
- Release Date
24 October 2023
Summary
Off the coast of Oregon, the Columbia River flows into the Pacific Ocean and forms the Columbia River Bar: a watery collision so turbulent and deadly that it’s nicknamed the Graveyard of the Pacific.
Two thousand ships have been wrecked on the bar since the first European ship dared to try to cross it in the late 18th century. Since then, the commercial importance of the Columbia River has only grown, and the bar remains a site of shipwrecks and dramatic rescues as well as power strug…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781804710364 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1804710369 |
| Author: | Randall Sullivan |
| Publisher: | Atlantic Books |
| Imprint: | Grove Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 24 October 2023 |
| Weight: | 455g |
| Dimensions: | 222mm x 145mm x 25mm |
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A riveting story of maritime tragedies and a personal passage…it is Sullivan’s gripping, vividly detailed accounts of nautical disasters at the Columbia Bar that make the book such an achievement for the three-time Pulitzer Prize nominee…A strikingly rendered tale of the hard and lasting costs of courage. * Kirkus Reviews *
About The Author
Randall Sullivan
Randall Sullivan was a contributing editor to Rolling Stone for over twenty years. He is the author of Dead Wrong, The Price of Experience, LAbyrinth, The Miracle Detective and Untouchable. His work has been published in, among many other places, Esquire, Outside, Men’s Journal, Washington Post and the Guardian. He lives in Oregon.
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