Sinopsis de SHADOW DIVERS: THE TRUE ADVENTURE OF TWO AMERICANS WHO RISKED EVERYTHING TO SOLVE ONE OF THE LAST MYSTERIES OF WORLD WAR II
New York Times Bestseller
In the tradition of Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air and Sebastian Junger’s The Perfect Storm comes a true tale of riveting adventure in which two weekend scuba divers risk everything to solve a great historical mystery–and make history themselves.
For John Chatterton and Richie Kohler, deep wreck diving was more than a sport. Testing themselves against treacherous currents, braving depths that induced hallucinatory effects, navigating through wreckage as perilous as a minefield, they pushed themselves to their limits and beyond, brushing against death more than once in the rusting hulks of sunken ships.
But in the fall of 1991, not even these courageous divers were prepared for what they found 230 feet below the surface, in the frigid Atlantic waters sixty miles off the coast of New Jersey: a World War II German U-boat, its ruined interior a macabre wasteland of twisted metal, tangled wires, and human bones–all buried under decades of accumulated sediment.
No identifying marks were visible on the submarine or the few artifacts brought to the surface. No historian, expert, or government had a clue as to which U-boat the men had found. In fact, the official records all agreed that there simply could not be a sunken U-boat and crew at that location.
Ficha técnica
Editorial: Random House Trade
ISBN: 9780375760983
Idioma: Inglés
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda
Fecha de lanzamiento: 24/05/2005
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Escrito por Robert Kurson
Robert Kurson saltó a la fama en Estados Unidos en 2004 gracias a su libro Tras la sombra de un submarino (RBA), un gran éxito internacional que narraba el hallazgo de un submarino alemán en la costa de Nueva Jersey. Aunque cursó los estudios de derecho en Harvard y en sus primeros años trabajó en un despacho de abogados, pronto se decantó por la labor de escritura, primero como periodista deportivo y después como articulista para revistas como Esquire o Rolling Stone.