This volume features cut-away illustrations revealing the inside of the liner "Titanic". Readers are invited to explore every deck and feature of the legendary liner, including the Grand Staircase, the huge dining saloon and the Turkish baths. A four-page fold-out section provides an overview of the "floating city" which was home to over 2000 ...
Filled with photographs and paintings that recreate the aura of the great ship, this book also includes in-depth discussions of such questions as whether First Officer Murdoch should have given different instructions within the 60 seconds after the iceberg was sighted. A valuable resource both for general readers and sea history buffs.
Stunning, full-color illustrations, detailed diagrams of the ship's interior, and rare photographs convey a wealth of information to complement this breathtaking true story.
Depicts five famous ships that have been lost at sea in modern times, the Empress of Ireland, the Lusitania, the Andrea Doria, the Brittanic, and the Titanic.
This breathtakingly illustrated true tale of discovery ties in with a groundbreaking new 3-D, large-screen movie from the director-producer of "Titanic." 200+ full-color photos.
Filled with photographs and paintings that recreate the aura of the great ship, this book also includes in-depth discussions of such questions as whether First Officer Murdoch should have given different instructions within the 60 seconds after the iceberg was sighted. A valuable resource both for general readers and sea history buffs.
Join world-renowned undersea explorer Dr. Robert D. Ballard for an extraordinary adventure to the final resting places of legendary ocean liners and ghostly warships. In 1985 Ballard discovered the most famous ship of all, the Titanic, and since then he's explored her sister ship Britannic, the Lusitania, the Andrea Doria, and Hitler's most famous ...
Ken Marschall delivers a magnificent volume featuring famous paintings, including the image that graced the September 1985 "Time" magazine cover when the underwater remains of the ship were discovered.
Riding the wave of ocean liner nostalgia, "Lost Liners" presents the most comprehensive and spectacular volume ever--a guided tour encompassing the beginnings, heyday, and eventual decline of the great Atlantic express liners. Ken Marschall's lavish paintings depict the ships in their shining prime as well as in their eerily poignant underwater ...
This award-winning bestseller from the authors of Exploring the Titanic combines the exciting story of one of history's great sea battles with the t hrilling undersea discovery of the wreck of a famous Nazi battleship. Features original paintings. archival photos, maps, and diagrams.
This is an investigation into the sinking of the Lusitania by a German torpedo in May 1915. Nearly 1200 civilian lives were lost. But rumours of conspiracies and cover-ups surround the liner: was she carrying munitions? Was she armed? Was there hope that her sinking might draw the US into the war?
Offers new text and new paintings by Ken Marschall. The author has also illustrated "The Discovery of the Titanic" and "The Discovery of the Bismarck".
The giant airship "Hindenburg" crashing to the ground in flames remains one of the most instantly recognizable photographs this century. Truly a flying luxury liner, the "Hindenburg" was the largest object ever launched in the air and her spectacular destruction on May 6th, 1937, marked the end of airship travel. This book looks at Germany's ...
Time Quest's exciting recounting of Columbus's voyage takes readers along on the 1990 reenactment of the great explorer's voyage and flashes back to life on board the original Santa Maria as seen through the eyes of a young cabin boy. With dramatic full-color photos, stunning paintings, archival illustrations from the 1490s, maps, and diagrams.
RMS Lusitania sank in May 1915 as the result of a torpedo from the U-20. 1,198 people died that day as she sank in less than twenty minutes off the coast of Ireland. Built in 1907, she had a successful career of nearly eight years before that fateful day. Famous for her sinking, she was the fastest ship in the world when built, and was the first ...
Ken Marschall has shown the world what the Titanic really looked like. Now a complete gallery of Titanic paintings from this remarkable maritime artist is featured in one splendid volume. Handsomely reproduced colour plates depict every aspect of the Titanic's story...from magnificent images of the ship under full steam to haunting depictions of ...
Ken Marschall delivers a magnificent volume featuring famous paintings, including the image that graced the September 1985 "Time" magazine cover when the underwater remains of the ship were discovered.
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