| Two classic accounts of the disaster, written by the doyen of Titanic
scholarship, are Walter Lord, A Night to Remember (1955, reprinted 1988), and The
Night Lives On (1986). More recent accounts are Michael Davie, Titanic: The Death
and Life of a Legend (1987; also published as The Titanic: The Full Story of a
Tragedy, 1986); Donald Lynch and Ken Marschall, Titanic: An Illustrated History
(1992); and John P. Eaton and Charles A. Haas, Titanic: Triumph and Tragedy, 2nd
ed. (1994), and Titanic: Destination Disaster, rev. ed. (1996). Two books that
trace the changing image of the Titanic in 20th-century popular culture are Paul
Heyer, Titanic Legacy: Disaster as Media Event and Myth (1995); and Steven Biel, Down
with the Old Canoe: A Cultural History of the Titanic Disaster (1996). A first-hand
account by the oceanographer who found the ship's wreckage in 1985 is Robert D. Ballard
and Rick Archbold, The Discovery of the Titanic, new and updated ed. (1995). Titanic: Legacy
of the World's Greatest Ocean Liner (1997) is a lavishly illustrated
popularization. |
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Quantities of paper have been recovered from the debris field in remarkably
good condition. Many items had been stored in leather bags, which protected them from
decomposition. New conservation techniques are rendering these papers readable again. |
