Voyagers of the Titanic
Subtitle: passengers, sailors, shipbuilders, aristocrats, and the worlds they came from
By: Richard Davenport-Hines
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: William Morrow
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780061876844
Subjects: Shipwrecks; Titanic (Steamship); History
Description: While many accounts of the Titanic's voyage focus on the technical or mechanical aspects of why the ship sank, Davenport-Hines follows the stories of the men, women, and children whose lives intersected on the vessel's fateful last day.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-324) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: From Greenland's icy mountains; title: On land. Boarding ; Speed ; Shipowners ; Shipbuilders ; Sailors; title: At sea. First class ; Second class ; Third class ; Officers and crew; title: Life and death.Collision ; The meaning shows in the defeated thing.