Rescuing Titanic: A true story of quiet bravery in the North Atlantic [Paperback]

This exquisitely illustrated story of quiet bravery tells in rich detail how the little shipCarpathiasaved 705 passengers of theTitanicfrom the icy waters of the North Atlantic.

With the approaching 110-year anniversary of the ship’s sinking, Rescuing Titanic shares a unique connection with the story of the ship; having been written and illustrated bydebut Northern Irish artist, Flora Delargy, whose grandfather and great grandfather both worked in the Belfast Shipyards where the Titanic was built. 

In the middle of the night, theCarpathiareceived a distress call from the sinkingTitanic. The intrepid little ship heroically changed course and headed straight into the frozen sea to help save as many people as it could.Follow theCarpathiaas it risks everything tonavigate remote, treacherous ice fields in the dark andcome to the rescue of passengerson the world-famous ocean liner.

Along the journey, you will learn all aboutMorse code,navigation tools, the differentroles of the crew,how the ships found each other, andby-the-minute detailsof exactly what happened on this cold and fateful night.

The illustrations set the scene and take the reader into the frozen eerie night in the North Atlantic. Beautifulfull-bleed illustration and vignettesgive great detail about how everyone on the ship made their own contribution and showed true bravery.

Rescuing Titanicshows thata glimmer of hope can be found even in great tragedyand thatheroes are not always big and mighty, but can also be small and unassuming.

This is the debut book in theHidden Histories series, which explores with beautiful illustrations and vivid details the untold parts of stories we thought we knew.

Flora Delargyis an author and illustrator from Belfast. She lC_