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Titanic: The Story About The Unsinkable Ship

More than a century has passed since the RMS Titanic went down in the North Atlantic, yet the ship still holds a strong grip on the public imagination. This account traces the vessel from its conception and construction through its ill-fated maiden crossing. Readers meet the wealthy and famous travellers who boarded her, and learn which of them did not make it home.

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The chapters follow the collision with the iceberg, the confused hours of the sinking and the aftermath, before turning to how the wreck was remembered and eventually found again on the seabed. Along the way the book considers the superstitions that gathered around the voyage, the ship's reputation for luxury, and the stories of courage, love, greed and cowardice that came out of that night.

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