Titanic, The Story of the Unsinkable Ship
By Beau Riffenburgh
Andre Deutsch, Carlton Publishing Group
Hardcover, 157 pages
www.andredeutsch.com
This coffee table-sized book goes beyond other books written about the sinking of the Titanic and features many illustrations, including rare photos, graphics, paintings and lots of maritime documents to help tell the story of this famous ship and those who perished after the collision with an iceberg in the North Atlantic.
Reissued after first published in 2008, this book was penned by Beau Riffenburg, a historian and author of other history books, including Mapping the World (2014), and Shackleton’s Forgotten Expedition. There are photos of the inside of the ship, original ship blueprints, a photo of a ticket used to board the ill-fated vessel, copies of U.S. Navy warnings about icebergs in the area, and even telegrams sent to and from the ship as she sank.
The story is well known, but this book offers a fresh look at the sinking of the largest passenger ship in the heyday of steamship travel – just five days into its inaugural – and final – transatlantic trip that began April 10, 1912. The book begins with a history on competition between the Cunard and White Star shipping companies, which were vying for passenger and mail service between Europe and North America.
This is a new twist on the doomed ship.
