On the 100th anniversary of the Titanic’s sinking, a prominent Titanic researcher offers a final chance to see the ship before it disappears forever
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 the public has been spellbound ever since. Now, a century later, the Titanic is about to disappear again: its infrastructure is set to collapse in the next few years. In this book, scientist Charles Pellegrino offers what may be the last opportunity to see the ship before it is lost to the seas for eternity. The last book to be written while survivors were still alive and able to contribute details, Farewell, Titanic includes many untold stories about the sinking and exploration of the unsinkable ship.
- Author Charles Pellegrino provided source material for James Cameron’s Oscar-winning Titanic film, which is being re-released in 3D at the same time as the book
- Includes 16 pages of never-before-published full-color photographs of the sunken vessel
- Includes all-new information about the Titanic research that has been carried out in the last decade
- Written by a New York Times bestselling author who participated in the post-discovery analysis of the Titanic’s remains during the expedition that immediately followed Robert Ballard’s Titanic discovery in 1985
Mục lục
Foreword by Tom Dettweiler ix
Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xvii
1. Convergence 1
2. Far from Okay 12
3. A Slight Trepidation 20
4. Night of the Lightning Dolphins 32
5. Trinity 38
6. Of Nature, Not above It 51
7. The Cascade Point 58
8. Everything Was against Us 72
9. Stalking the Nightmare 76
10. Points of Departure 86
11. The Geometry of Shadows 99
12. How Much Does Darkness Weigh? 112
13. The 46th Psalm 115
14. The Truth about William Murdoch 127
15. To Dream on the Ship of Sorrows 133
16. Falling Stars 140
17. Movements of Fire and Ice 149
18. Frailty 152
19. A Crevice in Time 169
20. Dark Circle 179
21. Explorers, Graves, and Lovers 193
22. Terminal Velocity 213
23. Laying the Music to Rest 218
24. A Fury Scorned 225
25. Sleeping in Light 228
26. Coming Home to Shock Cocoons 231
27. The Long Night of Ellen Betty Phillips 234
28. The Thieving Magpies 241
29. Monsters Down There 245
30. Ghosts of the Abyss 255
31. Persevering 261
32. Destination Unknown 264
Notes 282
Index 323
Giới thiệu về tác giả
Charles Pellegrino is a scientist who has been involved in Titanic research for decades, since shortly after Robert Ballard discovered the remains of the luxury vessel in the 1980s. Pellegrino wrote the
New York Times bestseller
Her Name, Titanic about the ship and its discovery. His second book about the
Titanic, Ghosts of the Titanic, was published in 2000. Pellegrino has worked with both Ballard and director James Cameron and provided some of the source material for Cameron’s Oscar-winning movie Titanic.
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