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The Day the Johnboat Went up the Mountain : Stories from My Twenty Years in South Carolina Maritime Archaeology /

Combining his skills as a veteran journalist and well-practiced storyteller with his two decades of underwater adventures in maritime archaeology, Carl Naylor offers a colorfully candid account of remarkable discoveries in the Palmetto State's history and prehistory. Through a mix of personal a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Naylor, Carl, 1948-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Twenty years and counting
  • The Lewisfield--no, Two Cannon--no, Little Landing Wreck Site
  • Mud sucks
  • The day the johnboat went up the mountain
  • Hobcaw Shipyard
  • Dredging for the first Americans
  • The upside-down wreck
  • Salvage license #32
  • The wreck of the SS William Lawrence
  • Hobby divers
  • Joe and the alligator
  • Brown's Ferry Vessel arrives in Georgetown
  • Those darn dugouts
  • The Hunley, the Housatonic, and the Indian chief
  • The mysterious French Cargo Site
  • The Cooper River Anchor Farm
  • Mowing the lawn
  • Man overboard--not!
  • "Never sausage an artifact"
  • Sexy wrecks.