Ghost Ship: The Mysterious True Story of the Mary Celeste and her Missing Crew
Brian Hicks
Ballantine
Paper, $16.00, 289 p.
ebook $9.99 Kindle $11.99 Nook

I said at the first of the year that I wanted read more history.  Here’s one of the first historical books I’ve read.  Clearly I’m not going to limit myself to major events.

I first read about the Mary Celeste when I was in 5th or 6th grade, maybe 7th.  This was during the late 70s, and I was interested in all things mysterious.  I was also much more gullible at the time, buying into all sorts of pseudoscientific mumbo-jumbo that today I wouldn’t believe for two seconds.  In the course of reading through this sort of thing, I came across the story of the Mary Celeste.  Continue reading →