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Gilded lives, fatal voyage : the Titanic's first-class passengers and their world / Hugh Brewster.
- ISBN: 9780307984708
- ISBN: 0307984702
- Description: x, 338 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Crown, c2012.
Available copies
- 9 copies at NOBLE (All Libraries).
Current holds
0 current holds with 11 total copies.
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beverly Main | Adult Nonfiction | G 530 .T6 B73 2012 (Text to phone) | Available | - |
| Danvers | Adult Nonfiction | G 530 T6 B73 2012 (Text to phone) | Available | - |
| Endicott College | General Collection | G 530 .T6 B73 2012 (Text to phone) | Available | - |
| Gloucester | Adult Nonfiction | 910.91634/Brewster (Text to phone) | Available | - |
| Lynnfield | Adult Nonfiction | G 530 .T6 B73 2012 (Text to phone) | Available | - |
| Peabody Main | Adult Nonfiction | NEW G 530 .T6 B73 2011 (Text to phone) | Available | - |
| Salem | Adult Non-Fiction | 910.9163/BREWSTER (Text to phone) | Available | - |
| Stoneham | Adult Nonfiction Lower Level | 910.9163 BRE (Text to phone) | Available | - |
| Stoneham | Unset | 910.9163/4B (Text to phone) | In process | - |
| Swampscott | Lower Level | 910.916 B (Text to phone) | Available | - |
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| 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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| Subject: |
Titanic (Steamship) Titanic (Steamship) > Biography. Upper class > United States > Biography. Ocean travel > Anecdotes. Shipwreck victims > Biography. Shipwrecks > North Atlantic Ocean. |
| Added title: | Titanic's first-class passengers and their world |
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