Titanic Triumph and Tragedy: Third Edition
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| Rating | : | 4.53 (660 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0857330241 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 416 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Five Stars" according to Gerry Godin. Great book and fast shipping. Thanks.. Buy the previous editions I have to say after owning the first two editions of this fine book, Haynes publishing did a shoddy job on this 3rd edition. Rather than go back to the original photos used for first two editions of this book, Haynes seemed to have merely scanned a copy of the last printing for its source material. The photos look like copies of copies. While there are a lot of photos Mr. Eaton and Mr. Haas have sourced from newspapers and magazines of 1912, they also used photos from Harland and Wolfe which reproduced in the first two. "Absolutely a MUST BE READ if you suffer from TITANIC-MANIA!!" according to alemafer@sinfo.net. I absolutely love the book. The pictures are great, the information is so detailed it is amazing, the way the chapters are layed out and written makes you want to continue on to the next pages. I was afraid the book would be somewhat like an Encyclopedia-like lecture Boy was I wrong! It's writing is so good it makes you feel you are actually talking with the author in person. The pictures are great: there are even pictures of cabins and the author specifies the cabin number! I rated the book 9 and not 10 though because
In her brief life the Titanic, at the time of her launch the world’s largest man-made moving object, inspired huge excitement and speculation. Today, 100 years since she sank with the loss of more than 1,500 lives, public interest continues undimmed. Senate investigation, an entirely new chapter detailing recent Titanic expeditions (both authorized and unauthorized), exploration, legal challenges, the ship's artifacts and their exhibitions, significant new Titanic museums, new appendices, the most complete and accurate Titanic passenger list ever published and more than 100 new photographs.. This substantial book, long regarded as the definitive book on the subject, has been fully u
An update of the classic reference book first published in 1986, this new edition includes color photographs of the wreck and some pieces salvaged from it, an explanation of the complex legal wrangling over salvage rights, a chapter entitled “Titanic, Today and Tomorrow” with a time line of Titanic-related events since the second edition was published in 1997, and new appendixes. VERDICT: A must-have for anyone interested in Titanic; worth updating to this new edition. The first edition’s subtitle was A Chronicle in Words and Pictures and, indeed, the pictures have always been a major strength of the work, showing more images of people and