Pages

Friday, April 15, 2022

The book that sank on the Titanic and burned in the Blitz [BBC News, April 2022]

Title:
The book that sank on the Titanic and burned in the blitz
 
Author:
Tim Stokes
 
Published:
BBC News, 15 April 2022
 
From the Article:
"One of the most lavishly decorated books the world has seen was despatched from London to New York in April 1912. The jewel-encrusted edition of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám was taken aboard the RMS Titanic and sank to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, exactly 110 years ago."