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Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage - The Titanic's First-Class Passengers and Their World (Paperback)
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Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage - The Titanic's First-Class Passengers and Their World (Paperback)
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Loot Price R451
Discovery Miles 4 510
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THE "TITANIC "HAS OFTEN BEEN CALLED "AN EXQUISITE MICROCOSM OF THE
Edwardian era," but until now, her story has not been presented as
such. In "Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage," historian Hugh Brewster
seamlessly interweaves personal narratives of the lost liner's most
fascinating people with a haunting account of the fateful maiden
crossing. Employing scrupulous research and featuring 100 rarely
seen photographs, he accurately depicts the ship's brief life and
tragic denouement and presents compelling, memorable portraits of
her most notable passengers: millionaires John Jacob Astor and
Benjamin Guggenheim; President Taft's closest aide, Major Archibald
Butt; writer Helen Churchill Candee; the artist Frank Millet; movie
actress Dorothy Gibson; the celebrated couturiere Lady Duff Gordon;
aristocrat Noelle, the Countess of Rothes; and a host of other
travelers. Through them, we gain insight into the arts, politics,
culture, and sexual mores of a world both distant and near to our
own. And with them, we gather on the "Titanic"'s sloping deck on
that cold, starlit night and observe their all-too-human reactions
as the disaster unfolds. More than ever, we ask ourselves, "What
would "we" have done?"
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