Rare book indeed, as this is not your tipical sea tale. This is a story about a ship who falls in love with a man or a man that falls in love with a ship. Nice mix of Fact/Fiction so well intertwined that makes you believe it really happened. This book spans a great timeline from 1900 to 1928 as we see not only the evolution of the main character we see the evolution of the liner herself from her early days, her older days, the war, a post war improvements and the sad conclusion of her final demise. ( )