A best-selling introduction to contemporary Islam. The author is concerned not simply with Islam in isolation, but with the very nature of religious faith, its spiritual and intellectual foundations and the light it casts upon the mysteries and paradoxes of the human condition.
No other ship or maritime tragedy holds more fascination than the Titanic - and a century after she sank beneath the chill, starlit North Atlantic waters on her maiden voyage, carrying a wide mix of passengers, from the social, artistic and financial elite of two continents to the humblest emigrants on their way to America, the story continues to enthral people of all ages and cultures.Two of the world's foremost authorities present this popular account of the sea’s best-known disaster, expertly summarisizing the ship's brief but glamorous life, from building and launching in Belfast, to the discovery of her remains more than two miles down on the ocean bed, and the subsequent artefact recovery dives and courtroom efforts to protect the wreck. Their own photographic dives to the wreck site feature in this updated third edition of their best-selling paperback, together with a wealth of fascinating new information about the ship and her people, past and present.
This superlative book is the result of many years of painstaking historical research and is an essential reference work for all those who have found the continuing saga of Titanic irresistible
Destination Disaster - The Legends and the Reality - Revised and Expanded Edition
More than eight decades after the most famous sinking of all time, interest in the Titanic tragedy remains as strong as ever. Here, two of the world's foremost Titanic experts bring the story right up to date to include: new facts which have emerged since the first publication; fresh evidence on the Californian mystery; details of dives down to the wreck, and inter-continental struggles for salvage rights; and the controversial recovery, preservation and exhibition of artefacts.
V knize "TITANIC: Plavba do záhuby" od Johna P. Eatona a Charlese A. Haase, se dozvíte mnoho věcí, jež vám možná až vyrazí dech. Nejen o lodi jako takové, ale i o problémech při její konstrukci a pověrčivosti dělníků, kteří v ní viděli zlo. Ovšem i to, co vám kniha může nabídnout, je jen počáteční fundament, na němž musíte stavět už vy sami jako potenciální badatelé na poli jedné velké záhady.