Ghosts of the Titanic
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| Rating | : | 4.13 (639 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0688139558 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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With new discoveries about the ship's fate and history, it showsWhat really happened to the Grand StairwayWhy the lookout never saw the massive iceberg before it was too lateHow diaries and letters from passengers came to be perfectly preserved at the bottom of the oceanWho was looting cabins as the ship went down How a 3.5-billion-year-old living fossil is turning the Titanic itself into the world's largest living organism. It continues to haunt and to compel archaeologists like bestselling author
But Charles Pellegrino finds an unexplored niche with Ghosts of the Titanic, which mixes the memoirs of survivors with learned speculation on the fate of certain of the ship's passengers--some of them shot to deter a rush on the few lifeboats--to reconstruct just what happened on that fateful April night. Along the way, Pellegrino offers asides on such strange phenomena as the deep-ocean bacteria that are slowly devouring the wreckage, and glimpses of the odds and ends (including the well-preserved remains of a last lamb supper) that the ship has turned up. Kennedy. Pellegrino also offers an intriguing look at the science behind recent forensic investigations of the Titanic, which have enabled scholars to model the minute-by-minute disintegration of the ship as it slipped into the
Great Book, Even If Not Totally Accurate I really, really want to give this book five stars, as I loved it. I had checked it out from the library and got hooked on the first chapter, and ordered my own copy before even finishing the borrowed one. This is one book I want in my permanent collection, it's that good.So why not five stars? Well, as a few others have pointed out, there are inconsistencies and a few errors. While most of them don't really. "great but with some flaws" according to A Customer. I really enjoyed this book. Dr. Pellegrino has touched on and explained aspects about the "Titanic" and her sinking not covered or investigated before. For the most part, it is an excellent resource.However, I noticed some glaring errors:It's Lord MerSey, not MerCey.Dr. Pellegrino lists the "Minia" as the ship sent to recover the "Titanc's" dead. She was the second ship sent out. The cable ship "Mackay-Benne. Incredibly interesting. K. Cox This book was terrific. I read it all in one day. I really liked the way the author(s) wove in stories of the people on the Titanic with the scientific analysis. And the science was fascinating. Not so technical that non-scientists couldn't understand or enjoy it, but detailed and supported with enough evidence so that it explains very well much of what happened that night. This book touches on biology, micr