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Gilded lives, fatal voyage : the Titanic, her passengers and their world / Hugh Brewster.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brewster, Hugh.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Titanic (Steamship).
- Titanic (Steamship)--Biography.
- Upper class--United States--Biography.
- Upper class.
- Ocean travel--Anecdotes.
- Ocean travel.
- Shipwreck victims--Biography.
- Shipwreck victims.
- Shipwrecks--North Atlantic Ocean.
- Shipwrecks.
- North Atlantic Ocean.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Anecdotes.
- Physical Description:
- x, 338 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Other Title:
- Titanic, her passengers and their world
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Crown, [2011]
- Summary:
- Presents portraits of some of the Titanic's most notable passengers, interweaving their personal narratives with an account of the disaster as it unfolds.
- Contents:
- Prologue: 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 afterlives.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780307984708 :
- 0307984702 :
- OCLC:
- 752910419
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