Publisher Description
Over one hundred years ago, the mightiest “unsinkable” ship began her maiden voyage to cross the Atlantic. An engineering feat eleven stories high, the Titanic contained a list of passengers collectively worth $250 million when she left port on April 10, 1912, but she would never reach her destination. The Titanic collided with an iceberg on the night of April 14, and 1,500 people died in the freezing waters as the ship met her watery grave.
Spectacular in many ways, it’s a story that has spurred legends and still sends shivers down the spine a century later. This minute-by-minute account of the sinking is based on over twenty years of research, and offers amazing detail of that fateful night. Read by Martin Jarvis, it’s a riveting account of one of the world’s biggest maritime disasters and the behavior of the passengers and crew.
Some sacrificed their lives, while others fought like animals for their own survival. Wives beseeched husbands to join them in lifeboats; gentlemen went taut-lipped to their deaths in full evening dress; and hundreds of steerage passengers, trapped below decks, sought help in vain. From the initial distress flares to the struggles of those left adrift for hours in freezing waters, this audiobook brings that moonlit night in 1912 to life for a new generation of listeners.
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“This was probably the most descriptive book I have ever read. This made it a challenge for me to read it because sometimes this book would go on for pages and pages of descriptions of little noises. It was drew me in on many occasions where I did not want to stop reading , but it had very very dull moments when it bored me to sleep. This book was about the titanic ,starting from about when it started to sink all the way to when the California and the Carpaithia came to rescue the people alive. This book was very interesting because it had no main characters . It had many sub characters , I felt as if it was hard to have any character development . It is a very interesting way of writing a book but I found many of the characters unneeded , but this way of writing definitely kept me asking questions about what happened afterwards to these characters who were left kind of “unfinished ” . This book was very moving to me. It was intense when it needed to be . Although I would never want a read a book with no real main character again , I really enjoyed this book ,but note that it may take a while to read because it is a very slow developing book.”
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Aziz (4 out of 5 stars)
