Titanic: the Ship Magnificent – Volumes One and Two

Has anyone been able to get a copy of this book? I tried late last year via Amazon.co.uk and they kept pushing the shipping date out. I finally cancel the order and replaced the order through Amazon.com - who has pushed the shipping date out again. Both the US as well as the UK sites say that the book is available, but I'm having my doubts. The same applies to Janette McCutcheon's new book: White Star Line: A Photographic History. Again, both sites say they are available, but the shipping date keeps getting pushed out.

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Amazon.uk went ahead and canceled my order. I have to presume from this that there's some sort of delay. Perhaps Bruce or Steve may want to speak to this. Whatever the case may be, I'm as certain as Mark is that the book will be well worth the wait. The research done by the team of Beveridge and Hall is first rate!

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According to the publisher, Tempus, Bruce & Steve's book will be released in November.

Mike, Amazon.uk cancelled my order as well; apparently they will hold an open order for only so long. I just went ahead and reordered it.

While we're on the topic, Tempus also told me that another looooong awaited title, The White Star Line a Photograhic History is going to be released sometime this month. We shall see!

all the best, Michael (TMiB)

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Hi guys,

Yes, I'm sorry, I blew a good four deadlines. I hope that the book will be ready for Christmas. It is being copy edited now and checked for technical accuracy by my team, but the text is done.

Thanks for the kind words also,

Bruce

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Very good news! I'm definitely adding it to my Christmas list--and looking forward to reading it.

Denise

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This will be a book that anyone interested in Titanic will want in their collection. The endless amount of research and time gone into it simply cannot be measured.
The bar has now been lifted.

Steve

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Bruce, don't beat yourself up over those missed deadlines.

To all,

Having been involved in this project myself, I feel confident in stating that the enormity of the task which has been taken on here has simply caused everyone on all sides of this project to repeatedly and royally under-estimate the amount of time and work required to complete any portion of this book. My personal feeling is that even if everything could be handed over to the publisher at this very instant, even a Christmas release would still be a bit too optimistic. I say this because, even though the people at Tempus have seen portions of the manuscript, and have been shown some of the illustrations which will accompany the text, and even though they have been given warning that this book will be a BIG task for them to complete, I am 100% certain that they still haven't got a firm grasp on just what will be coming their way. And, to be fair, how could they? At this point, even those of us working on this project at times still find ourselves overwhelmed by the scope of the thing. Just last evening, in an email to Bruce and myself, Art Braunschweiger, who has been putting in many hours on the editing and proofreading, noted his amazement at the fact that the chapter which he had almost finished checking, which deals with the interior joinery, spanned over 75 pages -- and mind you, this is as a MS Word document with single-spaced 10 point text -- not a document printed in a larger font and double-spaced for hand-marking, or one formatted to approximate the way the pages will appear in print -- nor did this total include the photographs, drawing figures and captions which accompany that chapter!

Without going into specifics, it is fair to say that nothing on this order of detail has been attempted for the Titanic, nor for any other single ship that I'm aware of. None of the articles published in the contemporary trade journals or technical press come anywhere close to describing the ship at the level of detail being presented here. In fact, this book would have been several magnitudes easier to produce if it had been limited to "only" the level of detail presented in the books of Conway's famous "Anatomy of the Ship" series.

Regards,
Scott Andrews

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Thank you, all, for the information. I guess my question is why Amazon (either UK or US) can't change the word AVAILABLE to NOT PUBLISHED YET - WOULD YOU LIKE TO PRE-ORDER? Either way, given the above, I'm looking forward to the book more than ever. Amazon US put a notice on my WHERE'S MY STUFF ORDER PAGE saying that they needed my permission to extend the order - which I agreed to by selecting the link provided. Had I not checked on my order, they would have canceled it in due time. As it is, they are saying that delivery is now the first week of October - so I very much thank Bruce and Scott for the information regarding a possible Christmas date. It sounds like this is going to be a great book. Regards to All -

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>>The bar has now been lifted.<<

Steve, from Bruce and yourself, I would expect no less. From what Scott has said, it looks to me like you two have been working with the varsity squad of Titanic techies to make this happen. I'm looking forward to this one!

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