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Gilded lives, fatal voyage : the Titanic's first-class passengers and their world Cover Image Book Book
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Gilded lives, fatal voyage : the Titanic's first-class passengers and their world

Brewster, Hugh (Author).

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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  • ISBN: 9780307984708
  • ISBN: 0307984702
  • Physical Description: x, 338 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Crown, [2012]

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-317) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: 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.

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  • 5 of 5 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

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Degenstein Community Library NF 910.916 BREWSTER (Text) 35031300830560 Adult Non-Fiction Available -
Muhlenberg Community Library 910.9163 BRE (Text) 33249020256057 Non-fiction Available -
Robesonia Community Library 910.9163 BRE (Text) 33249019310014 Non-fiction Available -
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