Gilded lives, fatal voyage, the Titanic's first-class passengers and their world, Hugh Brewster
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Gilded lives, fatal voyage, the Titanic's first-class passengers and their world, Hugh Brewster
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [311]-317) and index
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collective biography
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illustrations
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non fiction
Main title
Gilded lives, fatal voyage
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bibliography
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780527374
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Hugh Brewster
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the Titanic's first-class passengers and their world
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
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
Target audience
adult
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