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Article: Now voyager Boyd Tonkin meets Dava Sobel, meticulous visionary behind the bestseller `Longitude'
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 20, 1998
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Dava Sobel sits eating a heroic bowl of porridge in the restaurant
of her Kensington hotel. In the background, Celine Dion grinds her
way through the Titanic theme on what seems to be an endless loop.
As ambient noise for a meeting with the woman who found buried
treasure in the search for a means to avoid the mishaps that befall
ships lost at sea, the soundtrack surely falls into the you-
couldn't-make-it-up category. It also acts as a reminder that,
before long, James Cameron's whale of a blockbuster will have an
unlikely rival in the nautical-adventure stakes.
Funded by Granada and scripted by former Python Terry Jones, the
film of Sobel's improbably bestselling drama of 18th-century ...