Gilded lives, fatal voyage : the Titanic's first-class passengers and their world / Hugh Brewster.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 0307984702
- ISBN: 9780307984708
- ISBN: 9780307984814
- Physical Description: x, 338 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition: 1st edition
- Publisher: New York : Crown, [2012]
- Copyright: ©2012
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-317) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- 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.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Jacksonville Main Library | 910.9163 BRE (Text) | 36015000692133 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
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