Book description
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
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.
