Gilded lives, fatal voyage : the Titanic's first-class passengers and their world
2012
910.453 B848 2012 MB
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Title
Gilded lives, fatal voyage : the Titanic's first-class passengers and their world
Variant Title
Titanic's first-class passengers and their world
Edition
1st ed.
Published
New York : Crown, c2012.
Description
x, 338 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
910.453 B848 2012 MB
System Control No.
(OCoLC)780527374
Note
Author uses original research to intertwine the lives of the rich and famous within the powerful arc of the ship's dramatic demise to convey the poignance of this disaster.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-317) and index.
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.
L2012M69
SOC members, Arthur Ryerson & Archibald Butt on the Titanic; also John Borie Ryerson survived at age 13 & later became a SOC member.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-317) and index.
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.
L2012M69
SOC members, Arthur Ryerson & Archibald Butt on the Titanic; also John Borie Ryerson survived at age 13 & later became a SOC member.
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