Here is the definitive book for Titanic enthusiasts and novices alike!
Award-winning, prolific author Deborah Hopkinson (Shutting Out The Sky) skillfully interweaves engaging, fact-filled text with high quality archival black-and-white photographs (telegrams, newspaper articles, etc.) to relate the unforgettable story of RMS Titanic, which, on its maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New York, hit an iceberg and sank in the frigid waters of the North Atlantic Ocean. Tragically, 1,496 people lost their lives in this catastrophic maritime incident. Deemed "unsinkable," Titanic was the largest ship and technological wonder of her time, and boasted features such as a gymnasium, spectacular first-class staterooms, and numerous elegant restaurants. This well-researched volume utilizes survivor and witness accounts - Captain Arthur Rostron of the rescue ship, Carpathia, Violet Jessop, a stewardess, Thomas Andrews, the ship's designer, a 9-year-old-boy, and a science teacher - to enable readers to experience the sinking from multiple perspectives. The author presents the ship's launching to its demise, the rescue of 712 survivors in lifeboats picked up by the Carpathia, and the discovery of the shipwreck on the ocean floor by marine scientist, Dr. Robert Ballard.
Other special features in this book are a glossary of nautical terms, a Titanic chronology, facts and figures, and a comprehensive bibliography.
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