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Gilded lives, fatal voyage : the Titanic´s first-class passengers and their world / Hugh Brewster

By:

Brewster, Hugh

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Crown Publishers , c2012.Edition: First EditionDescription: x, 338 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:

9780307984708

Other title:

The Titanic´s first-class passengers and their world

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

910.9163 BRE

LOC classification:

G530.T6 B73 2011

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.

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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	910.9163 BRE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		024596

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Includes bibliographical references ( p. [311]-317) and index.

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.

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