Gilded lives, fatal voyage
Subtitle: the Titanic, her passengers and their world
By: Hugh Brewster
Publisher: Crown
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Shipwreck victims; Ocean travel; Anecdotes; Titanic (Steamship); Shipwrecks; Biography; Upper class
Other titles: Titanic, her passengers and their world
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A rare gathering; title: At the Cherbourg quay; title: A nomadic hiatus; title: The Palm Room; title: "Queer lot of people"; title: Queenstown; title: Fellow travelers; title: Private lives; title: Shipboard coteries; title: Designing woman; title: A calm Sunday; title: The last evening; title: Collision and after; title: To the lifeboats; title: The final minutes; title: Voices in the night; title: The ship of sorrow; title: Two continents stirred; title: Postscript: Titanic after-lives.