Title:
Gilded lives, fatal voyage : the Titanic's first-class passengers and their world / Hugh Brewster.
ISBN:
9780307984708
9780307984814
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Crown, [2012]
©2012
Physical Description:
x, 338 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents:
A rare gathering -- At the Cherbourg quay -- A nomadic hiatus -- The Palm Room -- "Queer lot of people" -- Queenstown -- Fellow travelers -- Private lives -- Shipboard coteries -- Designing woman -- A calm Sunday -- The last evening -- Collision and after -- To the lifeboats -- The final minutes -- Voices in the night -- The ship of sorrow -- Two continents stirred -- Postscript: Titanic after-lives.
Summary:
Brewster, who created several bestselling books on the "Titanic," uses original research to intertwine, for the first time, the lives of the rich and famous within the powerful arc of the ship's dramatic demise to convey the poignance of this epochal disaster.
OCLC Number:
ocn780527374
Availability:
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