Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage
The Titanic's First-class Passengers and Their World
New York : Crown, [2012]
Format: Ebook
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Edition: First edition.
Description: 1 online resource (x, 338 pages) : illustrations
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.
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.
Subjects:
Titanic (Steamship)
Titanic (Steamship) -- Biography.
Upper class -- United States -- Biography.
Ocean travel -- Anecdotes.
Shipwreck victims -- Biography.
Shipwrecks -- North Atlantic Ocean.
Titanic (Steamship)
Titanic (Steamship) -- Biography.
Upper class -- United States -- Biography.
Ocean travel -- Anecdotes.
Shipwreck victims -- Biography.
Shipwrecks -- North Atlantic Ocean.
ISBN:
9780307984715
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [311]-317) and index.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [311]-317) and index.
Description based on print version record.