Wrecked: A Deep Dive Into the World's Most Famous Shipwrecks - Hardcover

by Rebecca Siegel (Author), Howard Gray (Illustrator)

Take a journey deep below the waves, down to the seabed and explore some of the most famous shipwrecks, including the Titanic, the Odysseus and the Endurance...

There are over three million shipwrecks on Earth. They are many things at once: memorials to lives lost, science experiments, treasure chests, works of art, and home to millions of living creatures.

They are time machines, allowing modern explorers a glimpse into the past.

From spacecraft and fighter planes to exploration vessels, merchant ships and cruise liners, discover the gripping stories of conflict and courage behind some of the world's most iconic shipwrecks.

Contains the following shipwrecks:

- The SS Eduard Bohlen
- The Endurance
- USS Kittiwake
- Nan Hai
- Clotilda
- Titanic
- The Odysseus
- HMS Victoria
- HMAS Sydney and Cormoran
- Vasa

Author Biography

Rebecca Siegel (Author)
Rebecca Seigel is the author of To Fly Among the Stars: The Hidden Story of the Fight for Women Astronauts (Scholastic Focus, 2020) and Mayflower: The Ship that Started a Nation (Quarto, 2020), a 2021 EUREKA! Nonfiction Children's Honor Book. Rebecca has a master's degree in English Literature from Loyola University, Chicago. She has worked in children's publishing for over a decade, editing and writing books for school library publishers, and lives just outside of Chicago with her husband and two daughters.

Howard Gray (Illustrator)
Howard Gray loved to draw when he was growing up, and was always captivated by animals and nature. He pursued art throughout school but went on to study zoology at university, eventually completing a PhD on dolphins! Now, Howard has returned to his dream career of becoming an illustrator and has worked on many fiction and non-fiction projects. These days, he lives with his family in the picturesque city of Durham, UK.