A suitcase from the titanic / Enrique Dick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dick, Enrique Rodolfo.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Argentina--History.

Argentina.

Titanic (Steamship).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Place of Publication:

Southampton, UK ; Boston, MA : WIT Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The main character in the book wrote to his friend: ""Josey, I'm embarking on the biggest steamship in the world, but I don't feel any pride, because at this moment I wish the `Titanic' were submerged at the bottom of the sea..."" In his ""A Suitcase from the Titanic"" author Enrique Dick takes us into a whirlwind of family history, Samuel and Annie Andrew arrive from Whitby, Yorkshire, England, to the vast pampas of Argentina, near the end of the nineteenth century.

Contents:

Cover; A Suitcase from the Titanic; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; Chapter 1: The Sails of Whitby; Chapter 2: From El Espinillo to El Durazno And in Whitby, Sam Andrew is an estanciero; Chapter 3: Indelible memories; Chapter 4: Charras - Paris, City of Light; Chapter 5: From Río Cuarto to the Cliffs of Whitby; Chapter 6: Whitby - Stockton-on-Tees; Chapter 7: El Durazno - Paris - Whitby; Chapter 8: The long search for the Titanic; Chapter 9: An emotional visit to El Durazno; Chapter 10: At sea - Farewell to Whitby - El Durazno

Chapter 11: A death at El Durazno - In the Argentine NavyChapter 12: Mixed fortunes; Chapter 13: Brave lives remembered; Chapter 14: The training ship, Presidente Sarmiento; Chapter 15: Harriet Fisher; Chapter 16: The centenary - On attachment to the US Navy; Chapter 17: Trenton - El Durazno - Bournemouth; Chapter 18: The shipyard in Quincy - Bournemouth - The superb RMS Titanic; Chapter 19: RMS Titanic's first and last fateful journey; Chapter 20: Trenton - El Durazno - Battleships - In the wake of the disaster; Chapter 21: Progress - Prosperity - Proposals

Chapter 22: All change in Trenton and at El DuraznoChapter 23: The next generation; Chapter 24: A bright new dawn; Who's who

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-283-87375-3

1-84564-679-7

OCLC:

823724447