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Thursday, 15 February 2007

Book review

Posted on 13:09 by raw
I received a book on my birthday about the Titanic, the title is "The Complete Titanic" {From the ship's earliest blueprints to the epic film.} Written by Stephen J. Spignesi!
The inside cover...
"
no book about the Titanic had ever assembled so much fascinating information about the ship, the people that surrounded it, its wreck, and the aftermath."
Back of the book...
Did you know...?* In response to an early ice warning message from the Californian, a Titanic wireless operator replied, "shut up, shut up, I am busy."
*First class passengers could partake of herring, haddock, smoked salmon, grilled mutton, lamb chops, and sirloin steak``` for breakfast.
*
There were 36 ships in the North Atlantic when the Titanic sank and only one, the Carpathia, came to her assistance.
*
On April 15, 1912, the New York Evening Sun ran on its front page the headline "All Saved From Titanic After Collision."
*An 1898 novella seems to have predicted the Titanic disaster.
*James Cameron's $200 million blockbuster epic Titanic contains 40 "bloopers," including one in which Leonardo DiCaprio's character Jack refers to a man made lake in Wisconsin that was not dug until two years after the ship sank.
*Titanic's
enormous cargo included such varied items as anchovies, auto parts, surgical instruments, and tennis balls.
And this is just a few of the things that this book talks about. It is "the most comprehensive compilation of Titanic information to date."
It gives a very detailed view of the Titanic's construction, from the length of the engine room, to the particulars of the boilers. How many cylinders were in each engine, to who and when the boilers were made. It even gives detailed particulars of the gross tonnage of different parts of the ship, from the poop deck to the bridge space, the whole ship registered 46,328 tons of constructed steel.
Just in an overall view, we're talking everything from the Englehardt equipment, space available for passengers on different boat decks, all of the inspections, and countless others.
This is all I will post for now, don't want to bore anybody, but this book puts things in an interesting way to read and understand more about the Titanic. So this time I posted about the book's view on the construction, so the next time it will be on the next chunk!!!
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