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Titanic: An Illustrated History

by Donald Lynch, Ken Marschall

A popular gift volume featuring dozens of meticulously accurate, full-color paintings--including a fold-out illustration of the whole Titanic --offers a wealth of information about the "unsinkable" cruise ship and its fatal voyage. Reprint.

Exploring the Titanic: Scott Foresman Reading Classroom Library (Time Quest Book)

Exploring the Titanic: Scott Foresman Reading Classroom Library (Time Quest Book)

by Robert D. Ballard

For years, people everywhere have been fascinated by the Titanic tragedy. On September 1, 1985,s famous shipwreck--13,000 feet below the sea. "Captures the drama of both the night of the sinking as well . . . as the discovery of the great ship . . . Stunning."--School Library Journal. ALA Best Book for the Reluctant Young Adult Reader; School Library Journal Best Book of the Year; IRA Young Adult Choice.

The Discovery of the Titanic

by Robert D. Ballard, Rick Archbold

A firsthand account of the author's twelve-year quest to find the sunken luxury liner is illustrated with dozens of photographs and includes moment-by-moment accounts of the tragedy and the successful discovery expedition. Reprint."

Return to Titanic

by Robert D. Ballard, Michael S. Sweeney

Almost twenty years after making the world's most famous underwater discovery, Robert Ballard returns to Titanic with hi-tech cameras and robots to provide the clearest, most dramatic images ever seen. Ballard documents what has become of the world's best-known ship, torn apart by salvagers over the last 2 decades, and pronounces a new and vital conservation ethos - that future such wrecks must be preserved as... (more)

The Titanic Disaster Hearings:The Official Transcripts of the 1912 Senate Investigation

The Titanic Disaster Hearings:The Official Transcripts of the 1912 Senate Investigation

by UnitedStatesSenateCommitteeonCommerce

Merely a day after Titanic survivors arrived in port in New York City, a United States Senate committee began an investigation into the wreck of the great "unsinkable" ship. For the first time in book form, here is the dramatic testimony of crew and passengers from all walks of life, as they recall the sights and sounds of the night of April 14, 1912. From the manners of the day to the conduct fo those... (more)

The Titanic

by Geoff Tibballs

Vividly told and illustrated throughout with 100 photographs, The Titanic covers the building and sensational promotion of this ship, then leads to the events of the night of April 14, 1912, and on to the present day