Questions about the sinking of the Titanic are answered in this companion to Tonight on the Titanic. This resource includes information on the people who sailed on the Titanic, life on board the ship, and artifacts today. Illustrations.
Titanic: An Interactive History Adventure (You Choose Books)
Ship
In Ship we join a group of underwater archaeologists as they search for a long-lost caravel in the reefs of the Caribbean Sea. A combination of drawings, maps, and diagrams details the ship’s recovery, and as clues to the past are pieced together, a story emerges – of the triumphant birth of the ship Magdalena from Spain, and its tragic voyage to a far-away continent.
Iron Thunder: The Battle between the Monitor and the Merrimac
When his father is killed fighting for the Union in the War Between the States, thirteen-year-old Tom Carroll must take a job to help support his family. He manages to find work at a bustling ironworks in his hometown of Brooklyn, New York, where dozens of men are frantically pounding together the strangest ship Tom has ever seen. A ship made of iron.
Tom becomes assistant to the ship’s inventor, a gruff, boastful man named Captain John Ericsson. He soon learns that the Union army has very important plans for this iron ship called the Monitor. It is supposed to fight the Confederate “sea monster”–another ironclad–the Merrimac. But Ericsson is practically the only person who believes the Monitor will float. Everyone else calls it “Ericsson’s Folly” or “the iron coffin.”
Meanwhile, Tom’s position as Ericsson’s assistant has made him a target of Confederate spies, who offer him money for information about the ship. Tom finds himself caught between two certain dangers: an encounter with murderous spies and a battle at sea in an iron coffin.
Glory of the Seas
A young shipping clerk in Boston yearns to travel to California to find gold. But, before he can get on with this dream, many other adventurers distract him.
The novel has two main themes. The first concerns the development of the clipper ship passenger service between the East Coast and California around Cape Horn. The second concerns the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 and the enforced return of escaped slaves across state boundaries.