Voyagers of the Titanic : passengers, sailors, shipbuilders, aristocrats, and the worlds they came from /
Davenport-Hines, R. P. T. 1953-
Voyagers of the Titanic : passengers, sailors, shipbuilders, aristocrats, and the worlds they came from / Richard Davenport-Hines. - 1st ed. - New York : William Morrow, c2012. - 342 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. -324) and index.
Prologue: From Greenland's icy mountains -- On land. Boarding ; Speed ; Shipowners ; Shipbuilders ; Sailors -- At sea. First class ; Second class ; Third class ; Officers and crew -- Life and death.Collision ; The meaning shows in the defeated thing.
While many accounts of the Titanic's voyage focus on the technical or mechanical aspects of why the ship sank, Davenport-Hines follows the stories of the men, women, and children whose lives intersected on the vessel's fateful last day.
0061876844 (trade) 9780061876844 (trade)
2011014190
Titanic (Steamship)--History.
Shipwrecks--History.--North Atlantic Ocean
Voyagers of the Titanic : passengers, sailors, shipbuilders, aristocrats, and the worlds they came from / Richard Davenport-Hines. - 1st ed. - New York : William Morrow, c2012. - 342 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. -324) and index.
Prologue: From Greenland's icy mountains -- On land. Boarding ; Speed ; Shipowners ; Shipbuilders ; Sailors -- At sea. First class ; Second class ; Third class ; Officers and crew -- Life and death.Collision ; The meaning shows in the defeated thing.
While many accounts of the Titanic's voyage focus on the technical or mechanical aspects of why the ship sank, Davenport-Hines follows the stories of the men, women, and children whose lives intersected on the vessel's fateful last day.
0061876844 (trade) 9780061876844 (trade)
2011014190
Titanic (Steamship)--History.
Shipwrecks--History.--North Atlantic Ocean