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'The Wreck of the Titan' was written fourteen years before the sinking of the Titanic. The events in book are eerily similar to the actual events that would not happen for more than a decade. Titan, the largest ship in the line, was considered to be unsinkable; it was roughly the same size as the Titanic with about the same number of passengers; it was not provided with enough life boats for all of its passages; and half of the passengers died when it sank after hitting an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean. So similar were the incidents described in the book to the sinking of the Titanic that many people credited the author, Morgan Robertson, with clairvoyance. The 'Dr. Who' episode of the same name was based on the events in this book. A story of tragedy, loss, love and redemption.
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“I was expecting the sinking of the ship to take place near the end of the story, but it happens before the 50% mark and was quite anticlimactic. What follows is a melodramatic mess, in which the main character escapes the sinking by climbing onto an iceberg, fights a polar bear with only a small knife (he lives, but the bear bites his arm off), rescues a little girl who happens to be the daughter of the woman he loves and keeps her safe until a passing ship saves them both, gets back to England and is involved in an insurance fraud case, brings the kid to her mother in the US where he is promptly arrested for kidnapping, faces the mother in court where she calls him out, he disappears for 2 years and then receives a letter from her telling him that she was wrong and it’s hinted that they reunite. THE END.
What???
First of all, where did the polar bear come from??? This is the middle of the ocean with absolutely nothing around for miles, but there was a polar bear randomly camped on an iceberg somewhere.
Myra, the mother of the little girl was a total shrew.
The insurance fraud part took up way too much of the story.
The part I was the most interested in (the sinking) had very little to do with the story.
It is interesting how many parallels there are to the Titanic, despite being written almost 15 years prior:
- ship described as “unsinkable”
- similar names
- ship hits an iceberg
- most of the passengers perish
- not enough lifeboats
Etc etc etc. Very eerie!
*read for book scavenger hunt - a book mentioned in another book** (this book is mentioned in “Queen of the Waves” by Janice Thompson)”
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