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• Sailing's Strangest Moments: Extraordinary But True Tales from Over 900 Years of Sailing (Strangest)

  John Harding

  
  
   

• Tramp to Queen: The Autobiography of Captain John Treasure (Images of England)

  John Treasure Jones

  
  
   

• The Story of the "Titanic" as Told by Its Survivors

  
  
   

• Titanic Coloring Book

  P.F. Copeland

  
  
   

• Ships of the Royal Navy: A Complete Record of All Fighting Ships from the 15th Century to the Present

  J.J. Colledge, Ben Warlow

  
  
   

• British Seaside Piers

  Chris Mawson, Richard Riding

  
  
   

• Doomed Ships (Dover Maritime Books) (Dover Maritime Books)

  William H. Miller

  
  
   

• The Art of Rigging

  George Biddlecombe

  
  
   

• "QE2": Forty Years Famous

  Carol Thatcher

  
  
   

• Warship 2008 (Warship (Conway Maritime Press))

  Edited by John Jordan

  
  
   

• Return to "Titanic"

  Robert D. Ballard, Michael Sweeney

  
  
   

• Titanic's Last Secrets: The Further Adventures of Shadow Divers John Chatterton and Richie Kohler

  Bradford Matsen

  
  
   

• A Night to Remember

  Walter Lord

  
  
   

• Titanic: An Illustrated History

  Don Lynch

  
  The tragedy of the Titanic has been captured in fiction, non-fiction, music, poetry, cartoons, official judicial inquiry, survivors' recollections, still photography, television shows, and film; all of the above are covered to some extent in this good and popular book. But few Titanic books match the paintings by Ken Marschall, a specialist on the subject whose work can be found in other books by the ship's discoverer, Robert Ballard, who wrote the introduction here. The photos are notable--including shots of the red-paint-stained iceberg that may have caused the sinking, the pristine ship, the sunken wreck, the people involved in the case--but Marschall's dozens of large-scale paintings really do help to dramatize and explicate moments no camera glimpsed and few eyewitnesses agree upon.

  There is much to recommend the text, too. You could make a film just about Second Officer Charles Lightoller, who helped accelerate the lifeboat-launching process, saving lives; stepped off the ship's bridge into the Atlantic; was sucked down into a ventilator taking in water, vainly swimming against its suction; and then got expelled by a blast of air, like a human cannonball in a circus, and landed next to a lifeboat that had been knocked 20 feet clear of the sinking ship's deadly whirlpool by a huge ship's funnel that crashed into the waves nearby. Lightoller was marvellously clever in his courtroom interrogation by a lawyer determined to manoeuvre him into admitting blame for the disaster. There is much more history in-between the dramatic illustrations, facts both grand and trivial--if you're bent on knowing what actually happened to the dogs aboard, the answer is in this book. Definitely one of the better titles dealing with Titanic. --Tim Appelo

  
   

• RMS Aquitania: The 'Ship Beautiful'

  Mark Chirnside

  
  
   

• Titanic and the Mystery Ship

  Senan Molony

  
  
   

• The Flower Class Corvette "Agassiz" (Anatomy of the Ship)

  John McKay, John Harland

  
  
   

• Art of the Sailor: Knotting, Splicing and Ropework

  Hervey Garrett Smith

  
  
   

• The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea (Oxford Paperback Reference)

  
  
   

• Boats, Boffins and Bowlines: The Stories of Sailing Inventors and Innovations

  George Drower