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How did the ship end up in the desert?

And why the heck were the Confederates doing in Africa?

[moovova]

Read the book...it’s much better than gun-grabber Matthew McConaughey’s movie. The reason for the ironclad being in Africa was covered. When Cussler writes a book, you start reading and you go “What?”. But all is known by the end.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

You have to read the book...

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***And why the heck were the Confederates doing in Africa? ***

I asked myself the same thing? Why a lead in about a Confederate ironclad? Then a story about pollution, and a final scene with the ironclad? And nothing about how they got there or what they were doing there!