Tad Fitch Audiobooks

On a Sea of Glass: a thirty-two hour account of the Titanic and its loss

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Who is Tad Fitch?

The Titanic has attracted more writing than almost any other single event of the last century, most of it recycling the same handful of images. On a Sea of Glass belongs to the other tradition, the researched, source-led account that returns to survivor testimony and works forward from the evidence.

Tad Fitch is one of the co-authors of that account, and the scale of the finished work reflects the method. Thirty-two hours is not a length you reach by retelling a familiar story. It is the length of a book that stops to weigh conflicting witnesses and explain why one version has been preferred to another. Our catalogue happens to file it on the travel shelf, but its natural home is maritime history.

Tad Fitch in audiobooks

On a Sea of Glass is narrated by Tom Perkins across thirty-two hours and twenty-two minutes, and it holds a 4.8 rating from a substantial body of listener scores. That is exceptional agreement for detailed non-fiction, and it usually means the prose is as readable as the research is thorough.

This is a listen for the long haul: a commute companion for a month, or one obsessive fortnight. No prior knowledge is required, though anyone arriving with a passing interest will leave with a considerably deeper one. The audiobook is below.