Gary Leon Kinder

Gary Kinder

Gary Kinder (born 25 October 1962) is an U.S. Olympian who participated in the 1988 decathlon. . Kinder made the team by finishing first in the 1988 Olympic...

Gary Kinder (author)

Gary Kinder is an American writer. He authored true crime classic, Victim: The Other Side of Murder (1980); Light Years: An Investigation into the Extraterrestrial ...

Gary Kinder

Gary Kinder (born 25 October 1962) is an U.S. Olympian who participated in the 1988 decathlon and did not finish in his only Olympic berth. He scored 3900 ...

Klondike Tales (Modern Library Classics)

As a young man in the summer of 1897, Jack London joined the Klondike gold rush. From that seminal experience emerged these gripping, inimitable wilderness tales, which have endured as some of London’s best and most defining work. With remarkable insight and unflinching realism, London describes the...

The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex

On the morning of November 20, 1820, in the Pacific Ocean, an enraged sperm whale rammed the Nantucket whaler Essex. As the boat began to sink, her crew of thirty had time only to collect some bread and water before pulling away in three frail open boats. Without charts, alone on the open seas, and ...

Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea: The History and Discovery of the World's Richest Shipwreck

Originally published in 1998 and a best seller in its hardcover and paperback publications, Gary Kinder’s Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea tells the story of the sinking of the SS Central America, a side-wheel steamer carrying nearly six hundred passengers returning from the California Gold Rush, t...

Ship Of Gold In The Deep Blue Sea - Book Club

By Gary Kinder Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea (1st)

Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon

In 1857, Captain William Lewis Herndon sacrificed his life trying to save 600 passengers and crew when his ship foundered in a hurricane off the Carolina coast. Memorialized in Gary Kinder's best-selling book Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea, Herndon, with this final courageous act, epitomized a li...

The Anchor Atlas of World History, Vol. 1 (From the Stone Age to the Eve of the French Revolution)

The first of two volumes offers a unique combination of over 270 color maps and illustrations with a detailed chronological summary. The accompanying text gives full details of the main cultural, scientific, religious, and political events of the centuries from the Old Stone Age to the eve of the Fr...

Victim: The Other Side of Murder

Now a classic of true crime, Victim is a compelling and tragic look at how lives can be changed forever by a random act of violence. During an armed robbery, several hostages were brutally tortured, shot in the head, and left for dead. Victim focuses on the members of one family -- including a mothe...