Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by Winslow Homer, Willem van de Velde the Younger and Willem van de Velde the Elder. Famous disappearances examined - the kidnapped Charlie Ross, the archduke who sailed away and vanished, the Tichborne claimant, Ambrose Bierce in Mexico, and the ships that went and were never accounted for. Smith was a New York crime reporter and sorts evidence from legend. This edition adds 59 plates of paintings by Aivazovsky, Turner and others, plus 14 illustrations restored and coloured for it.