Titanic: The Last Night of a Small Town - Hardcover

Welshman, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199595577 ISBN 13: 9780199595570

Verlag: OUP Oxford, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 324 pages; In Titanic, Welshman offers a minute-by-minute account of the doomed liner's last hours, based on a representative cross-section of those who sailed in her: men and women, old and young, passengers and crew, wealthy and poor. He introduces the reader to a fascinating cast of twelve eye-witnesses, including Arthur H. Rostron, Captain of the Carpathia, the first ship to reach the scene; Charles Lightoller, the Titanic's Second Officer; Archibald Gracie, a wealthy American cotton plantation owner; Elin Hakkarainen, a young migrant from Finland, travelling Third Class; and Edith Brown, a teenager from South Africa. The survivor accounts allow Welshman to construct a graphic and compelling picture of events on a day-to-day and hour-by-hour basis, providing vivid glimpses of the tragedy as seen from their respective vantage points. Physical description: xxii, 324 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm. Subjects: Titanic -- History -- Biography.

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Críticas

As thorough and yet compassionate an account as the disaster is ever likely to have. (Open Letters Monthly)

Reseña del editor

In his famous book A Night to Remember, historian Walter Lord described the sinking of the Titanic as 'the last night of a small town'. Now, a hundred years after her sinking, John Welshman reconstructs the fascinating individual histories of twelve of the inhabitants of this tragically short-lived floating town.

They include members of the crew; passengers in First, Second, and Third Class; women and men; adults and children; rich and poor. Among them are a ship's Captain, a Second Officer, an Assistant Wireless Operator; a Stewardess, an amateur military historian, a governess, a teacher, a domestic servant, a mother, and three children. What were their earlier histories? Who survived, and why, and who perished? And what happened to these people in the years after 1912?

Titanic: The Last Night of a Small Town answers all these questions and more, while offering a minute-by-minute depiction of events aboard the doomed liner through the eyes of a broad and representative cross-section of those who sailed in her - both those who survived and those who didn't.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0199595577
• ISBN 13: 9780199595570
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352