Gilded lives, fatal voyage : the Titanic's first-class passengers and their world / Hugh Brewster.
2012
G530.T6 B73 2012 (Mapit)
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Title
Gilded lives, fatal voyage : the Titanic's first-class passengers and their world / Hugh Brewster.
Author
Brewster, Hugh.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780307984708
0307984702
0307984702
Imprint
New York : Crown, c2012.
Language
English
Description
x, 338 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
G530.T6 B73 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification
910.9163/4
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.
The Titanic has often been called 'an exquisite microcosm of the Edwardian era,' but until now, her story has not been presented as such. In this book, the author seamlessly interweaves personal narratives of the lost liner's most fascinating people with a haunting account of the fateful maiden crossing. Employing scrupulous research and featuring 100 rare photographs, he accurately depicts the ship's brief life and tragic denouement, presenting the very latest thinking on everything from when and how the lifeboats were loaded to the last tune of the orchestra, to a convincing evocation of the table talk at the famous Widener dinner party held in the Ritz Restaurant on the last night. Millionaires John Jacob Astor and Benjamin Guggenheim, writer Helen Churchill Candee, movie actress Dorothy Gibson, and a host of other travelers on this fateful crossing are also vividly brought to life. With them, we gather on the Titanic's sloping deck on that cold, starlit night and observe their all-too-human reactions as the disaster unfolds.--From book jacket.
The Titanic has often been called 'an exquisite microcosm of the Edwardian era,' but until now, her story has not been presented as such. In this book, the author seamlessly interweaves personal narratives of the lost liner's most fascinating people with a haunting account of the fateful maiden crossing. Employing scrupulous research and featuring 100 rare photographs, he accurately depicts the ship's brief life and tragic denouement, presenting the very latest thinking on everything from when and how the lifeboats were loaded to the last tune of the orchestra, to a convincing evocation of the table talk at the famous Widener dinner party held in the Ritz Restaurant on the last night. Millionaires John Jacob Astor and Benjamin Guggenheim, writer Helen Churchill Candee, movie actress Dorothy Gibson, and a host of other travelers on this fateful crossing are also vividly brought to life. With them, we gather on the Titanic's sloping deck on that cold, starlit night and observe their all-too-human reactions as the disaster unfolds.--From book jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of 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.
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.