Farewell, Titanic: Her Final Legacy
分類: 图书,进口原版,History(历史),World(世界),Transportation,
品牌: Charles Pellegrino
基本信息出版社:Wiley; 1 (2012年3月6日)精装:352页正文语种:英语ISBN:0470873876条形码:9780470873878商品尺寸:16.5 x 3.2 x 24.4 cm商品重量:599 gASIN:0470873876商品描述内容简介On the 100th anniversary of theTitanic's sinking, a prominentTitanicresearcher offers a final chance to see the ship before it disappears foreverTheTitanicwas 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, theTitanicis 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, Titanicincludes many untold stories about the sinking and exploration of the unsinkable ship.Author Charles Pellegrino provided source material for James Cameron's Oscar-winningTitanicfilm, which is being re-released in 3D at the same time as the bookIncludes 16 pages of never-before-published full-color photographs of the sunken vesselIncludes all-new information about theTitanicresearch that has been carried out in the last decadeWritten by aNew York Timesbestselling author who participated in the post-discovery analysis of theTitanic's remains during the expedition that immediately followed Robert Ballard'sTitanicdiscovery in 1985作者简介Charles Pellegrinois 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 theNew York TimesbestsellerHer Name, Titanicabout the ship and its discovery. His second book about theTitanic, 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.