In graphic novel format, tells of the events that occurred when the steamship Titanic struck an iceburg and sank on her maiden voyage.
This book takes us back in time and forces us to understand the trauma of our ancestors from a not-so-comfortable distance.
Suddenly, water is everywhere, and George's life changes forever. Lauren Tarshis brings history's most exciting and terrifying events to life in this New York Times bestselling series.
Then, along came J.P. Morgan, a wealthy American businessman who had had much success in the steel and railroad industries. Until this time, the United States had not had a major role in the shipping industry.
The Wreck of the Titan: Or, Futility
This eerily prescient novella from 1898 — 14 years before the Titanic disaster — tells of an "unsinkable" luxury liner's maiden voyage across the Atlantic and her disastrous collision with an iceberg.
Although the answer appears obvious, there is far more to the sinking of the Titanic than is popularly understood.
These were the husbands and wives, children, parents, sweethearts and friends of those who had sailed upon the Titanic on its maiden voyage. ... They spoke in whispers, each group intent upon its own sad business.
Thanks to the dramatization of the Titanic's sinking and the undying interest in the story, millions of people are familiar with various aspects of the ship's demise, and the nearly 1,500 people who died in the North Atlantic in the early ...
With a new introduction by Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea and Sea of Glory, this fiftieth-anniversary edition of Walter Lord's classic brings the drama of that night back to life.
With the help of that great narrator of the sea, Joseph Conrad, whose Lord Jim so uncannily predicted Ismay's fate - and whose manuscript of the story of a man who impulsively betrays a code of honour and lives on under the strain of ...