Author(s): Nicola Pierce

Children Non-Fiction

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This book commemorates the enduring legacy of the world's most famous ship - TITANIC.

Her story is one of all those bound together on that fateful voyage. On board were: writers, artists, honeymooners, sportsmen, priests, reverends, fashion designers, aristocrats, millionaires, children, crew and emigrants looking for a better life.

This book tells of their lives, and shines the spotlight on:

• Some of the great ship's surprising treasures


• Her fêted voyage from Belfast's
  Harland & Wolff shipyard


• The fascinating museums devoted to her memory, including Titanic Belfast


• The iconic music and movies


• Her winged and four-legged passengers


• The sister ships of Olympic and Britannic


• Tales of heroism


• Theories surrounding Titanic's fatal collision


• The lifeboats and just how close the SS Californian was on that tragic night


• How Arctic explorer Ernest Shackleton and the inquiries viewed events

These stories and much more lie inside.