The Ghost From The Grand Banks

ISBN-13: 9780575101777 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 288 str.

Sir Arthur C. Clarke

Opis

It is 2010. In just two years' time it will be the centennial of an event that has haunted the world: the sinking of the Titanic. But, a hundred years on, the urge to raise the wreck is irresistible.

O autorze

Clarke, Arthur C. Arthur C. Clarke was born in Minehead in 1917. During the Second World War he served as an RAF radar instructor, rising to the rank of Flight-Lieutenant. After the war he won a BSc in physics and mathematics with first class honours from King's College, London. One of the most respected of all science-fiction writers, he also won the KALINGA PRIZE, the AVIATION SPACE-WRITERS PRIZE,and the WESTINGHOUSE SCIENCE WRITING PRIZE. He also shared an OSCAR nomination with Stanley Kubrick for the screenplay of 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, which was based on his story, 'The Sentinel'. He lived in Sri Lanka from 1956 until his death in 2008.To discover more about how the legacy of Sir Arthur is being honoured today, please visit http://www.clarkefoundation.org