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Gilded lives, fatal voyage the Titanic, her passengers and their world

Presents portraits of some of the Titanic's most notable passengers, interweaving their personal narratives with an account of the disaster as it unfolds.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Brewster, Hugh
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Crown, c2011.
Subjects:	Titanic (Steamship) Titanic (Steamship) > Biography. Upper class > United States > Biography. Ocean travel > Anecdotes. Shipwreck victims > Biography. Shipwrecks > North Atlantic Ocean.
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Table of Contents:

Prologue: 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 afterlives.