Her Name, Titanic [Mass Market Paperback]

Charles R. Pellegrino (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 1990

On the evening of Sunday, April 14, 1912, the awesome ocean liner Titanic - the majestic queen of the White Star fleet - struck an iceberg and quickly vanished into the frigid blackness of the North Atlantic. Seventy-three years later, a dedicated group of scientists set sail in search of the sunken behemoth - an incredible mission that uncovered shocking secrets buried two miles below the ocean's surface.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

"Evolutionary biologist and spacecraft consultant Pellegrino celebrates the importance of oceanographic exploration in this personal--sometimes pretentious and repetitious--reflection on the wreck of the Titanic and the long-awaited discovery of its site 73 years later," remarked PW . Photos.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About the Author

Dr. Charles Pellegrino is the author of twelve books, including Unearthing Atlantis and Her Name, Titanic.He is a paleontologist who designs robotic space probes and relativistic rockets and is the scientist whose dinosaurs cloning recipe inspired Michael Crichton's bestselling novel Jurassic Park. In his spare time, Dr. Pellegrino writes acclaimed sf novels and mind-bending technothrillers. Jan de Bont, the director of Speed and Twister, has been signed on to direct the film version of Pellgrino's biological disaster novel Dust.The recipient of the 2000 Isaac Asimov Memorial Award for Science Writing, Dr. Pellegrino lives in New York.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Avon (June 1, 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0380708922
• ISBN-13: 978-0380708925
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (32 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,473,569 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Taking it Back, January 14, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Her Name, Titanic (Mass Market Paperback)

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.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fact is stranger than fiction, October 8, 2000

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Kal El (Athens) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Her Name, Titanic (Mass Market Paperback)

I have noticed that Paul Quinn's excellent books have been sharply criticized as being based on no new information. Nevermind that he is one of the few people who really does the hard and much required work of studying the details of the British and American inquiries into the loss of the Titanic. Then, when Pellegrino comes along with books based on actual expedition research combined with nearly a half century of unpublished letters and collected diaries - the collection being the life's work of Walter Lord (one of America's most respected historians) - these same Quinn critics attack Pellegrino specifically because he presents information they have not read before. They claim, without investigating any further, that because it's not in the British or American inquiries it must be all made up. So you're damned if you do present new information, damned if you don't. It seems to me that new writers on the subject of Titanic just can't win for losing.

When I wrote to Pellegrino for information on Titanic survivors Edith Russell and Alfred White, he sent me copies of letters and memoirs. This does not seem to me like someone who is "making it all up." The stories may seem unbelievable, but that is precisely why the titanic stirs so many emotions. It is, as Pellegrino writes, "all the wondrous horror of a Greek tragedy penned by God with Shakespeare as his muse."

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The closest thing to time travel, October 12, 2000

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George (Philadelphia, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Her Name, Titanic (Mass Market Paperback)

This is the first book since "A Night to Remember" that actually carries you back through time to the decks of the sinking Titanic until you actually feel it yourself. You feel the emotions of the people that night - and then you are yanked forward in time to the expeditions that first discovered and explored the Titanic, and then Pellegrino moves you back and forth in time again and again from the night of the sinking to the expeditions until at last you become, like James Cameron's Rose, unstuck in time. It is easy to see how Cameron was so moved by Pellegrino's morphings through time. A reading of this scientist's other books reveals that he seems to be unable to tell a tale in linear fashion. In both "Unearthing Atlantis" and "Ghosts of the Titanic," he unfolds archaeological investigations by telling the whole history backwards! It is difficult to imagine what he will do with time next. But I'll be there for the ride. You can bet on it.