The H. L. Hunley Submarine (eBook)

History and Mystery from the Civil War

Fran Hawk (Autor)

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2017
48 Seiten
University of South Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-61117-789-3 (ISBN)

Infos

The fascinating tale of the long-missing submarine that was the first to sink an enemy ship during wartime

The story of the H. L. Hunley submarine is about American ingenuity and real people who were inventive, loyal, brave, resilient, persistent, and adventurous. The Hunley, built by the Confederate Army during the Civil War, was the first submarine to sink an enemy ship during wartime. After that historic feat, the Hunley disappeared.

For more than a century, the fate and location of the Confederate submarine remained unknown. In The H. L. Hunley Submarine, Fran Hawk tells the exciting and compelling tale of how the "fish boat" was invented, how it underwent trials and tribulations in war, and how it got from the bottom of the ocean to its current resting place in the Warren Lasch Conservation Center in North Charleston, South Carolina.

Who invented the H. L. Hunley? How did it operate without an engine? How and why did it sink? What did researchers find when they investigated the submarine? Archaeologists and conservationists from all over the world have studied the historic vessel in search of answers. Which mysteries have they solved,and which mysteries remain for future generations to answer?

Autoren

Fran Hawk is the author of Queenie's Coin, Ten Tips for Raising Readers, and Countdown to Fall. She worked as a school librarian for ten years while writing a weekly children's book-review column for the Charleston Post & Courier. Hawk later served as a librarian at a small alternative school for at-risk children. She has a bachelor's degree in English from Randolph College and a master's of library science from Vanderbilt University. She lives in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, not far from where the Hunley crew lived and worked.

Monica Wyrick has a fine arts degree from the University of Dayton and has worked in advertising, as a muralist, and as an art instructor. The illustrator of Crabbing: A Lowcountry Family Tradition, published by the University of South Carolina Press, Wyrick and her husband live in South Carolina and have three grown children.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.10.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Young Palmetto Books
• Reihe/Serie: Young Palmetto Books
• Illustrationen: Monica Wyrick
• Zusatzinfo: 23 color photos, 7 b&w halftones
• Verlagsort: Columbia
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 220 x 220 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Militärfahrzeuge / -flugzeuge / -schiffe
• Themenwelt: Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Sachbücher
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Fahrzeugbau / Schiffbau
• Schlagworte: American Civil War • archaeology • artillery • battle of shiloh • charleston harbor • Children’s literature • Civil War • Clive Cussler • Confederate • confederate army • conservation • Depth gauge • first submarine to sink an enemy ship • fish boat • Fort Sumter • Further (bus) • George E. Dixon • H. L. Hunley (submarine) • H. L. Hunley Submarine • Horace Lawson Hunley • Maritime History • Mystery • National Underwater and Marine Agency • North Charleston • North Charleston, South Carolina • P. G. T. Beauregard • Seacock • seawater • Slavery • South Carolina • To this Day • Ulysses S. Grant • Warren Lasch Conservation Center • William Tecumseh Sherman
• ISBN-10: 1-61117-789-8 / 1611177898
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61117-789-3 / 9781611177893