The lucky and the lost : the lives of Titanic's children / John Boileau.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boileau, John, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ocean liner passengers--North Atlantic Ocean--Biography.

Ocean liner passengers.

Shipwreck survival--North Atlantic Ocean--History.

Shipwreck survival.

Shipwreck victims--North Atlantic Ocean--Biography.

Shipwreck victims.

Children--Biography.

Children.

Titanic (Steamship).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (231 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Halifax, NS : Nimbus Publishing Limited, [2024]

Summary:

A compelling, illustrated narrative history of the children who sailed aboard the doomed RMS Titanic--both those who survived and those who perished--from the celebrated author of Halifax and Titanic.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Introduction

Prelude – First to Die

Part 1 – Vision to Voyage

Chapter 1: A New Home Port

Chapter 2: Departing Southampton

Chapter 3: Cherbourg & Queenstown

Part 2 – A Night to Forget

Chapter 4: The First Two Hours

Chapter 5: The Last Forty Minutes

Chapter 6: Deliverance

Chapter 7: Recovery & Burial

Part 3 – Gone, But Not Forgotten

Chapter 8: Growing Up a Survivor (1912–1961)

Chapter 9: Fifty to Seventy-Five Years Later (1962–1987)

Chapter 10: The Last Survivors (1988–2009)

Chapter 11: Unborn Aboard & Orphans Ashore

Chapter 12: Titanic in Popular Memory

Epilogue: Doomed to Fail?

Afterword: When Does Childhood End?

Appendix: The Children of Titanic

Bibliography

About the authors

List of Illustrations

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ISBN:

9781774712870

1774712873

OCLC:

1430658073