As I add new content or features to the site, I will add a notification of the change here. The information is arranged by the date of the announcement, with the most current news at the top of the list.
November 30, 2005.
New Book Alert:
The Lost Ships of Robert Ballard: An Unforgettable Underwater Tour by the World's Leading Deep-Sea Explorer, by Robert Ballard & Ken Marschall.
November 28, 2005.
Upcoming Book News: James Cameron’s Last Mysteries of the Titanic, by James Cameron.
November 8, 2005.
New Book Alert: Titanic: Monument and Warning, by Dave Gittins.
November 5, 2005.
Upcoming Book News: Titanic, A Date to Remember, A Diary of Events, by Howard Nelson.
November 2, 2005.
New Journal Article: Leila Salloum Elias, "The Impact of the Sinking of the Titanic on the New York Syrian community of 1912: The Syrians Respond". In the Winter and Spring 2005 issue of the Arab Studies Quarterly.
November 1, 2005.
Bizarre Dan Brown Bogus Book with Violet Jessop & Titanic Connection!
Well, this is the weirdest thing in book news I have heard in a while. Some columnist in India called L. Suresh has written a review of a book supposedly written by Dan Brown (of Da Vinci Code fame) which has a Violet Jessop connection. This book, which does NOT exist, is supposedly called The Celestial Deluge.
Suresh gets all of the information about Brown's books wrong. He incorrectly states that Brown has written nine books (he has written four) and that this is the sixth appearance of Brown's famous Da Vinci Code hero, Robert Langdon. In point of fact, Langdon has appeared in only two titles, Angels and Demons & The Da Vinci Code.
According to Dan Brown's website, his next book in reality will be a sequel to Da Vinci Code, with the action set in Washington DC.
Here is the link to Suresh's article.
With thanks to Dru Schillow & Kyrila Scully for bringing this very weird article to my attention.
October 12, 2005.
Upcoming Book News: Titanic: Monument and Warning, by Dave Gittins.
October 11, 2005.
New Book Alert: The Titanic Diaries, by Anthony John Cunningham.
October 4, 2005.
New Book Alert: Titanic Lessons for IT Projects, by Mark Kozak-Holland.
September 28, 2005.
Upcoming Book News: Titanic, The Ship Magnificent, by Bruce Beveridge, Steve Hall & Scott Andrews.
September 27, 2005.
New Book Alert: The Titanic: A Primary Source History: In Their Own Words, by Senan Molony.
September 27, 2005.
New Book Review: The Titanic: A Primary Source History: In Their Own Words, by Senan Molony. See under Molony on the Author Pages.
July 5, 2005.
New Book Alert: Building the Titanic: An Epic Tale of Modern Engineering and Human Endeavour, by Rod Green.
July 3, 2005.
New Book Alert: Lobster, by Guillaume Lecasble.
July 1, 2005.
New Book Review: The Titanic in Print and on Screen, An Annotated Guide to Books, Film, Television Shows and Other Media by D. Brian Anderson. See under Anderson on the Author Pages.
May 29, 2005.
New in the Titanic Bookstore: Back in stock are two titles that have been unavailable for awhile, both by Irish author Senan Molony: Confessions of an Iceberg. The Icetory of the Hisberg Attacked by the Titanic, and A Garbled Titantic. Both in very limited quantities, and the very last ones available. Once they are gone, there are no more, unless you can find them second hand.
May 15, 2005.
New Journal Article: David Gleicher and Lonnie Stevans, "Who Survived the Titanic? A Logistic Regression Analysis." International Journal of Maritime History, Vol. XVI, No. 2, December, 2004. The cost for the journal is $15. It can be purchased through the Memorial University of Newfoundland website.
May 7, 2005.
New Book Alert: Atlantic Liners, A Trio of Trios, by J. Kent Layton.
May 4, 2005.
New Book Alert: RMS Titanic, A Model Maker’s Manual, by Peter Davies-Garner, the American edition.
April 24, 2005.
New Book Alert: Finding Dorothy. An Appreciation of the Life and Career of Dorothy Gibson Brulatour, by Randy Bryan Bigham, edited by Jennifer Mills.
April 19, 2005.
New Book Review: The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters by Logan Marshall. See under Marshall on the Author Pages.
April 3, 2005.
New Book Alert: The Titanic in Print and on Screen, An Annotated Guide to Books, Film, Television Shows and Other Media, by D. Brian Anderson.
April 2, 2005.
Upcoming Book News: Titanic (Lost Words Series) by Senan Molony.
March 21, 2005.
Revised Book Alert: The Stowaway on the Titanic, by Corinne Brown. In this new edition, the author took the opportunity to fix some historical inaccuracies that made their way into the first edition. It is available on most of the major on-line new book sites, both in hardback, ISBN 0595667546; and softcover, ISBN 0595331548.
March 20, 2005.
New Book Alert: Pig on the Titanic: A True Story, by Gary Crew.
March 10, 2005.
New Book Review: Titanic by Kathleen Fahey. See under Fahey on the Author Pages.
March 6, 2005.
Upcoming Book News: Pig on the Titanic by Gary Crew.
February 23, 2005.
Upcoming Book News: An update on Finding Dorothy by Randy Bryan Bigham.
February 21, 2005.
New Book Alert: RMS Titanic, A Model Maker’s Manual, by Peter Davies-Garner.
February 17, 2005.
New titles added to the Book Lists since the last update on December 8, 2004:
Barratt, Rex. The Hey-Day of the Great Atlantic Liners.
Bonner, M.G. The Real Book About Journalism.
Bowman, Alice W. Twinkle-Dust: A Titanic Adventure.
Constant Reader. The Tragedy of the Titanic, Told in Song-Snatches by Singers of the Sea.
Fahey, Kathleen. Titanic.
Green, Rod. Building the Titanic: An Epic Tale of Modern Engineering and Human Endeavour.
Longer Poems Notes: E.J. Pratt: The Titanic. (no author sited).
Maitland, Francis. Poems.
Parslow, Eva Ashley. Star of Gold and Other Poems.
Razzi, Jim. Ghost of the Titanic.
Redwood, Ray “Sparks” & edited by Tom Noe. QTC (I Have a Message for You).
Vaughan, Robert. Over There. The American Chronicles Volume Two: 1911- 1920.
Watts, Burchard L. Sinking of the Titanic.
Willers, David. In Search of the Waratah: The Titanic of the South. (NOT Titanic related).
February 15, 2005.
New Book Alert: Titanic, by Kathleen Fahey.
January 31, 2005.
Upcoming Book News: A new book on the Californian.
January 26, 2005.
Upcoming Book News: Building the Titanic: An Epic Tale of Modern Engineering and Human Endeavour, by Rod Green.
January 11, 2005.
New Research Article: Titanic Books 2004, the Year in Review.
January 5, 2005.
The winner of the Titanic Book of the Year Award for 2004 has been chosen. Check out the Book of the Year Award page for all the details.
January 2, 2005.
New Book Alert: Samson's Titanic Journey, by Lauren Graham.
January 1, 2005.
New Book Alert: Le S/S Nomadic, Petit Frére du Titanic (Little Brother to Titanic), by Fabrice Vanhoutte & Philippe Mélia.
December 17, 2004.
The Titanic Book Site.com celebrates it’s fourth anniversary today. By far the most significant change was the complete redesign of the site from its original format to the current one.
For old time’s sake, here is how the site looked before the upgrade:
Quite a change, eh? It helps to have a brother who is a web design graphic artist and all the credit for the spiffy new look goes to him. This changeover was a massive effort that took several months from initial design trials until final adoption. The new format was uploaded for the first time in early February, 2004.
The Book Lists now contain over 850 individual titles. There are almost one thousand books reviews and descriptions (How can there be more reviews than number of books? Many titles have had multiple editions, and many of them are reviewed or described individually).
There are now roughly 240 Author Pages, which include over 440 images of book covers. 146 books, old and new, have been added to the Book Lists in the past year. There are now eight research articles, half of them contributed by the ever prolific Senan Molony. Thanks Senan!
New Book Notification Service. This service was introduced last year, and remains a popular one. I continue to send out e-mail notices to everyone who would like to know when new books become available. If you would like to sign up for the notification service, just check out the main page of the web site and you will see the link on the top right side of the page under Special Features.
The new feature added this year is the first of what will hopefully be a series of bibliographies about shipwrecks other than Titanic. The first bibliography is on the wreck of the paddle steamer Arctic. Check it out on the Other Shipwrecks link.
My circle of contacts who inform me about both new and old books continues to expand, but like last year, special recognition must go to Dru Schillow, Patty Miller and Kalman Tanito who have once again gone above and beyond.
As in previous years, time and energy remain the big drawbacks slowing down the introduction of new content. The struggle was particularly tough this past year, as the book store took more and more of my attention. There are a host of new research articles I would like to get written, for example, and other new features are also waiting in the wings. So please do check back from time to time and we will see what new surprises we can come up with.
All the best, Michael (TheManInBlack) Tennaro