Rick Archbold

Background

Rick Archbold was born in 1950.

Career

Rick established his career in the 1980s and 1990s as author and co-author of nonfiction books on subjects ranging from Canadian politics to the search for sunken ships. His first achievement, 1986’s "Whelan: The Man in the Green Stetson", is the autobiography of the Canadian politician Eugene Whelan. In 1987, Archbold began a long-lasting collaboration with marine geologist Robert D. Ballard with the book "The Discovery of the Titanic". Archbold teamed with specialists in a different field, that of medicine, to produce the 1989 "Your Vitality Quotient: The Clinically Proven Program that Can Reduce Your Body Age-and Increase Your Zest for Life". In 1990 Archbold solely produced the biography "Robert Bateman: An Artist in Nature". And in 1992 Archbold helped another Canadian politician, Audrey McLaughlin, to write an autobiography titled "A Woman’s Place: My Life and Politics".

Works

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• book

  • Last Dinner On the Titanic: Menus and Recipes from the Great Liner
  • Ghost Liners: Exploring the World's Greatest Lost Ships
  • Robert Bateman: An Artist in Nature
  • Hindenburg: An Illustrated History
  • The Discovery of the Titanic
  • I Stand for Canada: The Story of The Maple Leaf Flag by Rick Archbold (October 15,2002)
  • Canada Our History

Connections

colleague:

Robert D. Ballard

colleague:

Audrey McLaughlin