Title:
Voyagers of the Titanic : passengers, sailors, shipbuilders, aristocrats, and the worlds they came from / Richard Davenport-Hines.
ISBN:
9780061876868
9780061876844
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Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : William Morrow, [2012]
©2012
Physical Description:
342 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
Prologue: From Greenland's icy mountains -- On land. Boarding ; Speed ; Shipowners ; Shipbuilders ; Sailors -- At sea. First class ; Second class ; Third class ; Officers and crew -- Life and death.Collision ; The meaning shows in the defeated thing.
Summary:
While many accounts of the Titanic's voyage focus on the technical or mechanical aspects of why the ship sank, Davenport-Hines follows the stories of the men, women, and children whose lives intersected on the vessel's fateful last day.
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OCLC Number:
ocn711959937
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