Famous Mysteries of the Sea [antikvár]

Secrets of the Cavern Below New Zealand, in the far south of the world, a handful of tiny islands lies scattered in the Pacific. No one lives there, for the islands are scarcely more than outcroppings of rock. Bleak, wind-swept, and lonely, they are pinpoints in a mighty ocean. Their only visitors are scientists and the men who hunt whales and seals. In the days of sailing ships, however, the islands were a more familiar sight. They lay near a route taken by ships traveling between Australia and England. Here both winds and currents carried ships forward on the long voyage to the far side of the earth. And so it happened that these tiny islands became the setting for a strange mystery of the sea. The ship was the General Grant, a sturdy sailer under the command of an experienced captain. She 9