Unsolved Mysteries of Sea and Shore Author:Edward Rowe Snow The sea is a notoriously hostile witness, swallowing up in its depths evidence which might lead to the solution of many a mystery which has occurred afloat or along its rugged shores. — Edward Rowe Snow, a master chronicler of the deep, tells here twenty-four thrilling accounts of riddles to which the answers forever may be lost, jealously guarde... more »d in their ocean tomb or buried along some surf-swept strand. In chapters such as "Derelict," "The Nelson Hoard," "Kitchener," "Jenkins and His Ear," and "Island of Lost Ships," are tales of the violence of man and nature, of watery graves and hidden treasure, for which the denouement may perhaps be left to speculation for eternity. That very mystery, however, never fails to make absorbing reading.« less