The staggering success of James Cameron's blockbuster epic film Titanic illustrates the fact that the world continues to be fascinated with everything surrounding the ship and its sinking. However, for the Titanic connoisseur; there has been no one-stop source for everything Titanic ... until now.<p>Spignesi, that renowned chronicler of pop culture, examines everything from the construction of the ship (including its cargo, supplies, and crew members) and the facts surrounding its passengers and those who survived to how the news media of the time covered the wreck, rumors, myths and legends, and the ultimate discovery of the ship on the floor of the Atlantic, more than two miles down. The Titanic Timeline (beginning in 1850) provides a massive collection of quotes about the ship and a comprehensive listing of Titanic books and films, related organizations, museums, web sites, and more. The text is peppered with dozens of contemporary documents, many of which have never appeared in book form.<p>The Complete Titanic trivializes nothing, the author taking it as his responsibility to tell the complete story. Never before has so much lore on history's greatest disaster been collected in a single volume.