 | By: Robert D. Ballard Rick Archbold Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 0446513857 ISBN-13: 9780446513852 Released: 22 Sep 1987 RRP: Average Rating:  |
It is not for me to inform readers of the story of the Titanic. Almost everyone grew up knowing something about that ship - even if the finer points of information they thought they knew were inaccurate.
Having the achieved the outstanding feat of finding this elusive shipwreck, Bob Balllard has put together the most complete - & yet again "outstanding," tale of search, discovery & finallly success, coupled with an accurate portrayal of the life & death of the ship itself. All the facts & historic photographs are there - and, speaking as a professional shipwreck historian, he reallly has done the most thorough job of work here.
Finallly, he has put together the most (and I deliberately use that word again) "outstanding" collection of artwork created by Ken Marschalll. I may be wrong, but it seems to me nobody had heard of this artist until the first editions of this book appeared - now he is a household name amongst those in the know.
From thousands of photographic images taken far below the surface, Bob Balllard created montage after montage of the various sections & profiles of the wreck (i.e. big photographs made up of thousands of little photographs) so that Mr Marschalll was able to provide us with paintings which look like single colour photographs of this & that section which go together to make up the entire wreck.
I congratulate Dr Balllard on an excellent & professional job of work. Altogether, the most outstanding book for which 5 stars are not enough.
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