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Graveyard of the Pacific: Shipwreck and Survival on America's Deadliest Waterway

By Randall Sullivan
Hardcover
$30.00
By Randall Sullivan
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A vivid portrait of the Columbia River Bar that combines maritime history, adventure journalism, and memoir, bringing alive the history—and present—of one of the most notorious stretches of water in the world

Off the coast of Oregon, the Columbia River flows into the Pacific Ocean and forms the Columbia River Bar: a watery collision so turbulent and deadly that it’s nicknamed the Graveyard of the Pacific.

Two thousand ships have been wrecked on the bar since the first European ship dared to...

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HistoryWorld HistoryUnited States HistoryAmericas - General & Miscellaneous HistoryUnited States History - Western, Plains & Rocky Mountain RegionNorth America - History - General & MiscellaneousWestern United States - History - General & Miscellaneous