Titel
Titanic
Schrijver
Peter Thresh
Taal
Engels
ISBN
9780861249442
Uitgever
Bison Books Ltd
Prijs
€ 7,50(Excl. verzendkosten)
Bijzonderheden
1992, 80 pag. gebonden met hardcover, boek is netjes, losse omslag heeft lichte beschadiging voorzijde
Meer info
ISBN 0861249445
On 15 April 1912 a shocked world heard that the great liner Titanic had sunk. The news was received with horror and disbelief as not only was this her maiden voyage, but also she was thought to be unsinkable. Man believed that technology had advanced beyond anything that the elemental forces of the sea could cast up at him. The tale of the Titanic has become part of popular mythology partly because it so forcefully and poignantly exposed man's fallibility and hubris.
The Titanic and her sister ships Olympic and Britannic were the ultimate in luxury ocean travel. They had been planned by the White Star line as an answer to Cunard's transatlantic liners Mauretania and Lusitania. Of vast size and technically advanced, with double hulls and watertight compartments, Titanic and her sisters captured the public's imagination.
In Titanic the author charts the whole of the great ship's short but eventful life, from the drawing board through the apocalyptic meeting with the North Atlantic iceberg to the rediscovery of her rusting wreck. We learn about the opulence of her fitting out, the preparations for her maiden voyage, some of the great and the good among her passengers, and the events of that fateful night. The author discusses in detail the ongoing controversy surrounding the rescue and the inquests and the recent finding of the wreck. This stimulating and informative text is complemented by more than a hundred carefully researched illustrations, both colour and black-and-white, which create an evocative record of the luxury and the tragedy that was the Titanic.
On 15 April 1912 a shocked world heard that the great liner Titanic had sunk. The news was received with horror and disbelief as not only was this her maiden voyage, but also she was thought to be unsinkable. Man believed that technology had advanced beyond anything that the elemental forces of the sea could cast up at him. The tale of the Titanic has become part of popular mythology partly because it so forcefully and poignantly exposed man's fallibility and hubris.
The Titanic and her sister ships Olympic and Britannic were the ultimate in luxury ocean travel. They had been planned by the White Star line as an answer to Cunard's transatlantic liners Mauretania and Lusitania. Of vast size and technically advanced, with double hulls and watertight compartments, Titanic and her sisters captured the public's imagination.
In Titanic the author charts the whole of the great ship's short but eventful life, from the drawing board through the apocalyptic meeting with the North Atlantic iceberg to the rediscovery of her rusting wreck. We learn about the opulence of her fitting out, the preparations for her maiden voyage, some of the great and the good among her passengers, and the events of that fateful night. The author discusses in detail the ongoing controversy surrounding the rescue and the inquests and the recent finding of the wreck. This stimulating and informative text is complemented by more than a hundred carefully researched illustrations, both colour and black-and-white, which create an evocative record of the luxury and the tragedy that was the Titanic.
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