 Titanic
An Illustrated History
Donald Lynch
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. 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. |
