Title: Not up to the usual standards
Product review: Having purchased everything ever published by Dr. Ballard, I eagerly awatied this release. Upon first glance, the book appears to be every inch what his previous volumes have been, with the exception of the mediocre "Explorations".After reading this though, I can't call it more than a short compilation of his previous works on Midway and Gudalcanal, with short side trips to Pearl Harbor, Truk, and Bikini.There are very few photogrpahs of wrecks, certainly not anywhere near the amount in previous volumes...AND WHERE ARE KEN MARSCHALL's PAINTINGS? Overall, I felt rather underwhelmed. Bikini has been done better in "Ghost Fleet", and the Submeged Cultural Resource unit did a bettr job at Pearl Harbor.On the up side, there is one haunting internal photograph from the Arizona...hardly enough to recommend full retail for this book.Wait for it to be $4.99 in a few weeks if you simply must have it.
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