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Title: Her Name, Titanic by Charles R. Pellegrino ISBN: 0-380-70892-2 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 June, 1990 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.24 (37 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: New Information for Titanic Enthusiasts
Comment: Those familiar with the work of Charles Pellegrino know that his writing always drifts from the distant past to the present to the distant future, connecting disparate circumstances together into a coherent "big picture" by way of entertaining discourses on paleontology, archeology, biology, and astrophysics, to name but a few of the fields Mr. Pellegrino has worked in. In "Her Name, Titanic", the disparate events in question are the sinking of the ocean liner Titanic in 1912 and its discovery on the ocean floor in 1985, as well as subsequent missions to document the Titanic's wreckage more fully. "Her Name, Titanic" presents previously unpublished information about the sinking of the Titanic in the form of fictionalized narratives and direct quotes from survivors, based on newly discovered (at the time of writing) diaries and communication logs. There is much discussion of the technology and accomplishments of deep sea exploration, including interviews with Bob Ballard and other members of the teams that discovered and explored the Titanic wreckage. I didn't like "Her Name, Titanic" as much as I usually like Charles Pellegrino's books. This book actually focuses on one subject more than most of his books do, which turned out not to be a good thing. I found Pellegrino's enthusiasm to be somewhat less infectious than usual, as the middle portion of the book bogged down with too much talk about deep sea submersibles. Of course, if this is your field of interest, you may find that part of the book fascinating. Titanic aficionados will be thrilled to read new accounts of what happened that night in April 1912. I give the new information 5 stars and the more tedious aspects of the book 3 stars, so 4 stars as a whole.
Rating: 5
Summary: Her Name, Titanic...
Comment: This unique and fascinating book goes beyond any TITANIC bookthat has ever been written. It is perhaps the most dramatic account of the sinking of the legendary "unsinkable" Cunard liner -- and of the incredible, science fiction-like finding of the ship.
"As ropes were unhooked and boat number fourteen struck out, portholes still glowed below the surface. From five feet under, in a room that was still unflooded, a man was peering out into the ocean. Adjacent portholes illumunated the white bottom of a lifeboat. Looking up, he watched it cast away..."
Time seemed to have come unstuck the day the TITANIC's grave was discovered. An empty lifeboat davit turned up on the robot ARGO's tv screens, and suddenly it was 1912 again, suddenly the horrors came spewing out like a nightmare from the past. Scientiests burst into tears, and many who saw those first pictures suffered what they later called minor nervous breakdowns. The world looked on, dumbfounded by the fallibility of man's suppsedly most invincible creations.
HER NAME, TITANIC includes a vivid portrait of explorer Robert Ballard, the brilliant leader of the expedition that discovered the TITANIC's remains. The author portrays Ballard and his crew in a compelling style unlike that of any other book on the subject. Charles Pellegrino is a scientist as well as an author, and he describes in riveting detail the scientific aspects of the machines and the processes involved in the expeditions.
But more than that, this is the first book to go beyond the headlines. By delving deep into the meaning of the TITANIC, which has evolved slowly from tragedy to symbol, and by putting himself into the minds of the people who play the characters in the drama. Charles Pellegrino has created a spellbinding work of oceanography that succeeds in illuminating new truths about the meaning of science -- and about the tragedies and joys of the human adventure.
Rating: 5
Summary: Taking it Back
Comment: Because many of the stories Pellegrino told appeared in no other books, including the British and American Inquiries into the sinking, I and other Titanic Historical Society members bought into the widely-voiced notion that Pellegrino's facts were "all made up." As it turns out, he and Walter Lord have over the years assembled an entire library of unpublished expedition logs and survivors' accounts, the full contents of which were recently reproduced for THS and Earthship tv. Referring to the accounts as "a real eye-opener," THS historian Don Lynch, who recently sailed with Pellegrino on James Cameron's 3-D Imax filming expedition to the Titanic, found the author to be a true seeker, blessed with hyper-energy and an undying sense of wonder that makes him seem at times like an overgrown child, "if not occasionally like a class 1-A pain in the neck... but a lovable pain in the neck". As for the availability of the library, Pellegrino has begun to post it on his web site, fully annotated, and downloadable by an "honor system" by which readers will hopefully send donations to the Michael J. Fox organization for Parkinson's disease research (where Fox makes sure that every dime goes directly to research). This tells me everything I need to know about Pellegrino and the Titanic.
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Title: Ghosts of the Titanic by Charles R. Pellegrino, James Cameron ISBN: 0380724723 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 03 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: A Night to Remember by Walter Lord ISBN: 0553278274 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 02 June, 1997 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Story of the Titanic as Told by Its Survivors by Jack Winocour ISBN: 0486206106 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1960 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Night Lives on: The Untold Stories & Secrets Behind the Sinking of the Unsinkable Ship-Titanic by Walter Lord ISBN: 0380732033 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: March, 1998 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: I Was There: On Board the Titanic by Shelley Tanaka ISBN: 0786813180 Publisher: Hyperion Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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