Nations Attic 2026 Diving Into History + More
Lot 178:
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Seventy Fathoms Deep. With the Divers of the Salvage Ship Artiglio, by David Scott, 1931, First Edition, Faber & Faber, London. One of the greatest salvage stories ever written with excellent photos covering early successful dives with the Neufeldt Kuhnke one atmosphere suits. Scott was the only journalist to accompany the Italian divers working from the first Artiglio salvage ship in their now famous attempts to recover treasure in various forms from the ships Elizabethville and Egypt, sunk of the Coast of Brittany. Living for weeks at a time in the Artiglio, he was a close witness of the operations, and his accounts of diving at hitherto unreached depths with the latest modern apparatus are of unique authenticity. His story is, moreover, intensely dramatic. We come to know and to love those gallant Genoese who performed such remarkable feats of ingenuity and endurance, and we are held by the excitement of the story which was destined to end on a note of high tragedy. This is a magnificent piece of narrative. Mr. Scott has written an epic of modern adventure. 288 pages, b&w photos, index, fold out chart. Hardbound, laser copy dust jacket in protective sleeve.
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