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GHOSTS OF THE TITANIC
Pellegrino, Charles R.
2000 52398 I n 1996, Charles Pellegrino published Her Name, Titanic, a riveting account of the most famous disaster in American history. The book became a New York Times bestseller, garnering superb praise from both readers and the pres. Now Pellegrino, expert oceanographer and a member of the original team that discovered the wreck two-and-one-half miles below the surface of the sea, has written the ultimate book on the sinking of the Titanic. Using the latest technology to penetrate the ship's watery grave-where low oxygen levels and a water temperature only two degrees above freezing have kept many of the ship's artifacts from even mild decay-Ghosts of the Titanic recreates those last, horrifying moments on board the doomed ship, and uncovers fascinating secrets about ocean life. Filled with new discoveries about the ship's fate and history, it reveals: The surprising fate of the Grand Stairway Why the lookout never saw the iceberg before it was too late, and why the Titanic was much closer to the iceberg than previously thought Who was looting cabins as the ship went down Diaries and letters from passengers, perfectly preserved at the bottom of the ocean About the Author: Dr. Charles Pellegrino's seven books include Unearthing Atlantis and Her Name, Titanic. He lives in Long Beach, NY. James Cameron An incredible adventure at the bottom of the sea. Pellegrino brings the Titanic back to life! Arthur C. Clarke Very moving. Like Her Name Titanic, Ghosts of the Titanic often brought tears to my eyes. Publishers Weekly Pellegrino's sequel to his 1996 bestseller, Her Name, Titanic, is a tour de force incorporating new information about the shipwreck and the nightmarish human dramas of survivors, reconstructed from letters, diaries and oral histories. An oceanographer, paleontologist and space scientist, Pellegrino draws on his 1996 deep-sea expedition to the Titanic as well as other marine scientists' recent research. Contrary to the popular notion that the ship succumbed to a gigantic gash after it hit an iceberg, he shows that the Titanic, which sank on its maiden voyage in 1912, was felled by a series of ice stabs and bullet-hole-like punctures adding up to just 12 square feet of openings through which tons of water poured. The Titanic's Grand Stairway, all five stories of it, probably broke free and floated out of the disintegrating ship, he concludes. According to survivors' testimony, the accident occurred because the ship was traveling at a reckless speed: its owners decided to arrive in New York a day early as a publicity coup, and this meant lighting extra boilers, which led to an out-of-control bunker fire. The ship didn't simply run up against a lone iceberg--it encountered a field of icebergs over 10 miles wide. By correlating eyewitness accounts, Pellegrino establishes that many shootings did occur on the ship, as crew and officers armed with guns prevented third- and fourth-class passengers from boarding the lifeboats. His fresh re-creation of the Titanic's final hours provides an eerie and astonishing adventure, a time capsule gracefully wrapped in elegant prose, deserving a place alongside Walter Lord's classic A Night to Remember. (July) Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information. | School Library Journal YA-Many mysteries about the sinking of the Titanic continue to generate controversy among experts. Among the larger of these: the actual cause, what happened to the bodies of the many victims, why the "mystery ship" failed to come to the rescue, and the motivations behind several seemingly inexplicable actions by crew and passengers. Pellegrino, author of Her Name, Titanic (Morrow, 1990) looks again at these and other puzzles, illustrating his points with fine drawings of discoveries made during scientific expeditions, and with a generous number of diagrams of the ship as it might have appeared at different points in the disaster. He describes the new forensic evidence found by recent expeditions to the wreck, and views it from a variety of scientific perspectives. HarperCollins Publishers 0-688-13955-8 / 9780688139551
Hardcover New Condition Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
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STAR TREK - THE NEXT GENERATION 'DYSON SPHERE'
Pellegrino, Charles
1999 901078 Product Description Two hundred million kilometers across, with a surface area that exceeds that of a quarter-billion worlds, the Dyson sphere is one of the most astounding discoveries the Federation has ever made. Now the U.S.S. Enterprise? has returned to explore the awesome mysteries of the sphere. Intrigued by what is possibly the greatest archaeological treasure of all time, Captain Jean-Luc Picard hopes to discover the origin of humanoid life throughout the galaxy -- or perhaps the ultimate secret of the Borg. But when a neutron star approaches on a collision course with the sphere, a mission of discovery becomes a desperate race against time. The many sentient species inhabiting the sphere face extinction -- can even the Starship Enterprise save them all? Star Trek 0-671-54173-0 / 9780671541736
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