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The Wreck of the Titan Book
John Rowland a disgraced former Royal Navy lieutenant has taken a job as a lowly deck hand aboard the largest ship ever to have sailed the Titan. One night in deep fog the Titan strikes a gigantic iceberg and sinks almost immediately. Written in 1898 fourteen years before the Titanic's sinking this novel has been hailed in equal measures as a prophetic work and the result of pure coincidence. Certainly the similarities are striking: two unsinkable ships steam ahead in treacherous conditions carrying privileged passengers with an insufficient number of lifeboats. Sam Leith's foreword grapples with the nature of chance and the surprises it can produce.Read More
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Waterstones
Once seen as a prediction of the sinking of the Titanic, The Wreck of the Titan was written fourteen years before that ill-fated event of 1912. Now, on the centenary anniversary of the sinking, the striking similarities between the fate of the Titan
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Pickabook
Morgan Robertson, Sam Leith (Foreword)
- 1843913593
- 9781843913597
- Morgan (author) Robertson, Sam (foreword) Leith
- 30 March 2012
- Hesperus Press Ltd
- Paperback (Book)
- 100
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