Dusk to Dawn: Survivor Accounts of the Last Night on the Titanic
Quinn, a member of the Titanic Historical Society and author of Titanic at Two A.M., has researched and painted the Titanic throughout most of his adult life. In this lavishly illustrated account, which includes 27 original color paintings by the author and 80 black-and-white photographs, Quinn uses extensive survivor testimony to place the reader in the midst of the last eight hours of the great ship's life: from one passenger's vivid recollection of how the sun's pathway at dusk "ran ahead of us...and slipped over the edge of the skyline" to a survivor's comment, watching from the railing of the rescue ship Carpathia: "Finally the sun came up. It was a beautiful sparkling morning looking down on a group of widely scattered small lifeboats...all that was left of the greatest ocean steamer ever built." Introduced with a thoughtful foreword by Edward S. Kamuda, president and founder of the Titanic Historical Society, this is a documentary counterpoint to other recent retellings. Recommended for larger public libraries and libraries with a special interest in the Titanic.-Robert C. Jones, formerly of Central Missouri State Univ., WarrensburgCopyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.