Finding The Titanic: En Busca Del Titanic [Paperback]

Robert D. Ballard (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 9 and up | Series: Hola, Lector (Hello Reader) (Spanish)

This simple, lively diary tells the story of the Titanic, its tragic voyage, and Ballard's triumphant discovery of the wreck 73 years later. Life-like, full-color illustrations and amazing photographs enhance the text.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9 and up
  
• Paperback: 48 pages
• Publisher: Scholastic en Espanol; Tra edition (April 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0590926306
• ISBN-13: 978-0590926300
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,545,680 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A most outstanding book., September 21, 2004

By 

Ned Middleton (British professional underwater photo-journalist & author) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Finding The Titanic: En Busca Del Titanic (Paperback)

Dr Robert Ballard will forever remain the man who found the Titanic. In so doing, he became the world's most famous ocean explorer who found the world's most famous ship.

It is not for me to inform readers of the story of the Titanic. Almost everyone grew up knowing something about that ship - even if the finer points of information they thought they knew were inaccurate.

Having then achieved the outstanding feat of finding this elusive shipwreck, Bob Ballard has put together the most complete - and yet again "outstanding," tale of search, discovery and finally success, coupled with an accurate portrayal of the life and death of the ship itself. All the facts and historic photographs are there - and, speaking as a professional shipwreck historian, he really has done the most thorough job of work here.

Finally, he has put together the most (and I deliberately use that word again) "outstanding" collection of artwork created by Ken Marschall. I may be wrong, but it seems to me nobody had heard of this artist until the first editions of this book appeared - now he is a household name amongst those in the know.

From thousands of photographic images taken far below the surface, Bob Ballard created montage after montage of the various sections and profiles of the wreck (i.e. big photographs made up of thousands of little photographs) so that Mr Marschall was able to provide us with paintings which look like single colour photographs of this and that section which go together to make up the entire wreck.

I congratulate Dr Ballard on an excellent and professional job of work. Altogether, the most outstanding book for which 5 stars are not enough.

NM