Barry Clifford
Auteur de The Lost Fleet: The Discovery of a Sunken Armada from the Golden Age of Piracy
A propos de l'auteur
Barry Clifford is the author of Expedition Whydah, and his undersea explorations have been the subject of numerous documentaries by such organizations as the BBC, the National Geographic Society, PBS, and Discovery Communications. Founder of the Expedition Whydah Sea Lab and Learning Center in afficher plus Provincetown, Massachusetts, he continues to lead expeditions throughout the world afficher moins
Œuvres de Barry Clifford
The Lost Fleet: The Discovery of a Sunken Armada from the Golden Age of Piracy (2002) 107 exemplaires
Expedition Whydah: The Story of the World's First Excavation of a Pirate Treasure Ship and the Man Who Found Her (1999) 106 exemplaires
The Black Ship: The Quest to Recover an English Pirate Ship and Its Lost Treasure (1999) 28 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1945
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Massachusetts, USA
Membres
Critiques
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 6
- Membres
- 329
- Popularité
- #72,116
- Évaluation
- 3.1
- Critiques
- 3
- ISBN
- 14
- Langues
- 2
The history is interesting, and Clifford does a fairly good job of eking out Kidd's personality and psychological state of mind (so far as one can tell, of course).
The details of how an archaeological expedition is funded and operated are interesting, but sometimes overly detailed, especially the chapters where they just sit around stewing because of the delay in getting permits to work, although that may be interesting to students of government.
As it happened, the delay was instigated by another archaeologist on the island, in search of a different wreck, who had a long-standing grudge against Clifford (of which he claimed to be unaware), indicating that some of the "Indiana Jones" plotlines are not too far out of line.
The ultimate result of the excavating is somewhat disappointing, even though they do find the wreck that most likely is Kidd's.
One odd note: Kidd is sometimes referred to in histories and other sources as "Robert" Kidd, for some reason.
Research was funded by The Discovery Channel for a TV episode.… (plus d'informations)