Farewell, Titanic: Her Final Legacy Hardcover - 2012 - 1st Edition
by Charles Pellegrino
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The Titanic was the biggest, most luxurious passenger ship the world had ever seen. The ads proclaimed it to be unsinkable. When it sank in April 1912 after hitting an iceberg, killing more than 1,500 people, the world was forever changed, and we have been spellbound ever since. Now, a century later, the Titanic is about to disappear forever: its infrastructure will finally collapse in the next few years. In this book, scientist and New York Times Bestselling writer Charles Pellegrino offers what may be our last opportunity to see the ship before it is lost to the sea for eternity.
In "Farewell, Titanic," world-renowned Titanic expert Pellegrino re-creates the great ship's final hours in stunning detail, clears up several key mysteries about what actually happened, and reveals new information about how and why the ship went under so quickly. This is probably the last book that could have been written while Titanic survivors were still alive, and in "Farewell, Titanic," Pellegrino draws on survivors' firsthand stories of the tragedy as well as evidence he and others have collected during their deep-sea explorations of the ship's remains in the last twenty-five years. Together, these sources create a riveting account of the intensely dramatic moments before and after the collision and of the aftermath."Farewell, Titanic" also goes far beyond the nightmarish catastrophe to draw connections between the loss of more than 1,500 souls and some of the tragedies of our won era. Drawing on the author's personal story, the book examines with rare sensitivity and immediacy the cautionary scientific and poignant spiritual lessons of disaster. Filled with dozens of extraordinary original color photos of the great ship, Farewell, Titanic offers compelling reading for anyone who is fascinated by forensic maritime science or who is simply moved by the timeless drama of history's most legendary shipwreck.From the jacket flap
The Titanic was the biggest, most luxurious passenger ship the world had ever seen. The ads proclaimed it to be unsinkable. When it sank in April 1912 after hitting an iceberg, killing more than 1,500 people, the world was forever changed, and we have been spellbound ever since. Now, a century later, the Titanic is about to disappear forever: its infrastructure will finally collapse in the next few years. In this book, scientist and New York Times Bestselling writer Charles Pellegrino offers what may be our last opportunity to see the ship before it is lost to the sea for eternity.
In "Farewell, Titanic," world-renowned Titanic expert Pellegrino re-creates the great ship's final hours in stunning detail, clears up several key mysteries about what actually happened, and reveals new information about how and why the ship went under so quickly. This is probably the last book that could have been written while Titanic survivors were still alive, and in "Farewell, Titanic," Pellegrino draws on survivors' firsthand stories of the tragedy as well as evidence he and others have collected during their deep-sea explorations of the ship's remains in the last twenty-five years. Together, these sources create a riveting account of the intensely dramatic moments before and after the collision and of the aftermath."Farewell, Titanic" also goes far beyond the nightmarish catastrophe to draw connections between the loss of more than 1,500 souls and some of the tragedies of our won era. Drawing on the author's personal story, the book examines with rare sensitivity and immediacy the cautionary scientific and poignant spiritual lessons of disaster. Filled with dozens of extraordinary original color photos of the great ship, Farewell, Titanic offers compelling reading for anyone who is fascinated by forensic maritime science or who is simply moved by the timeless drama of history's most legendary shipwreck.Details
- Title Farewell, Titanic: Her Final Legacy
- Author Charles Pellegrino
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Wiley, NY
- Date 2012-03-01
- ISBN 9780470873878 / 0470873876
- Weight 1.32 lbs (0.60 kg)
- Dimensions 9.36 x 6.41 x 1.2 in (23.77 x 16.28 x 3.05 cm)
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Themes
- Aspects (Academic): Historical
- Chronological Period: 1900-1919
- Library of Congress subjects Shipwrecks - North Atlantic Ocean - History, Titanic (Steamship) - History
- Dewey Decimal Code 910.916
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Citations
- Library Journal, 03/01/2012, Page 109
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