The fate of the Titanic—and its 1, passengers and crewmembers—had been sealed. Two teenagers discover true love aboard the doomed ocean liner Elizabeth Farr never wanted to return to America.
Returning to New York means having her debut into society, and that means a swiftly arranged marriage. Elizabeth will never go to college, never learn to be a reporter—as she sees it, her life is over as soon as the Titanic reaches port. As Elizabeth and her family settle into their first-class cabins, Katie Hanrahan, a young Irish girl with dreams of finding fortune in America, makes her way to a steerage berth. Both girls have plans for the future, but love and death are about to intervene.
The tragedy that shook the world. From the construction of the ship and its maiden voyage, to its collision with an iceberg in the North Atlantic, the entire, fateful journey is chronicled in LIFE Titanic. She has unearthed a vibrant culinary subtext that often left me breathless and dreamy-eyed.
She skillfully captures the magical avor of a fascinating era in our history. Two spatulas raised in adulation. It was an unforgettable night.
In the last hours before the Titanic struck the iceberg, passengers in all classes were enjoying unprecedented luxuries. In addition to stirring accounts of individual tragedy and survival, The Last Night on the Titanic offers tried-and-true recipes, newly invented styles, and classic cocktails to reproduce a glittering world of sophistication at sea.
With Voyagers of the Titanic, Richard Davenport-Hines gives us a magnificent history of the people intimately connected with the infamous ship—from deal-makers and industry giants, like J. Morgan, who built and operated it; to Molly Brown, John Jacob Astor IV, and other glittering aristocrats who occupied its first class cabins; to the men and women traveling below decks hoping to find a better life in America.
Commemorating the centennial anniversary of the great disaster, Voyagers of the Titanic offers a fascinating, uniquely original view of one of the most momentous catastrophes of the 20th century. Writing in his signature elegant prose and using previously unpublished sources, deck plans, journal entries, and surviving artifacts, Gareth Russell peers through the portholes of these first-class travelers to immerse us in a time of unprecedented change in British and American history.
Through their intertwining lives, he examines social, technological, political, and economic forces such as the nuances of the British class system, the explosion of competition in the shipping trade, the birth of the movie industry, the Irish Home Rule Crisis, and the Jewish-American immigrant experience while also recounting their intimate stories of bravery, tragedy, and selflessness.
Relive history through these amazing moment-by-moment accounts of the famous shipwreck and what ten young people did to survive. Seventeen-year-old Jack Thayer looks over the side of the sinking Titanic and stares into the frigid sea.
He knows he has to jump, but can he? Fifteen-year-old Edith Brown and her mother beg her father to join them in Lifeboat Why won't he? Eleven-year-old Billy Carter kneels down on the slanting deck of the ship and hugs his beloved Airedale. But how can he save himself and his dog, too? These young people and seven more from many walks of life tell of the terrifying decisions they faced on the night of April 14, , when the unthinkable occurred and the "unsinkable" ship began to go down.
It took 4, men to build it, 23 tons of animal grease to slide it into the ocean, , people to wave bon voyage, but only one wrong move to tear the Titanic apart, sinking it into the pages of history.
On a cold moonless night in April of , 2, passengers--both the uber-rich enjoying a luxury cruise and the dirt-poor hoping to find a new life in America--struggled to survive. Only succeeded. Lifeboats were launched half-full; women were forced to leave their husbands and sons behind; and even those who made it out alive were forever haunted, constantly wondering "why me? Skip to content. Overall this is a good book for someone looking for humanizing details of this awful tragedy in history.
Stephanie Fitzgerald. This book was written for a middle-grade audience, but history buffs, do not allow yourselves to miss out on this one! The author focuses on the stories of ten children who survived the sinking of the Titanic. They were from all classes and many different countries. Some were the offspring of millionaires; others immigrating with parents determined to make a better life for them, or were working on the ship to gain passage.
On the night of April 14, , they were all just frightened children, wanting desperately to stay with their parents, friends, and even their pets, in the midst of total chaos A wonderful, meticulously researched book. I defy any readers of Titanic history not to learn at least one thing they had not known before reading this!
Cabiria Aquarius. So sad. I hate to know what and how many was lost. But well written The lives of so many were lost. It makes me mad that lifeboats not even half full would be launched. I understand that you need to fill as much as possible and let them go so they can survive but seriously help fill it more. Let men on.
These young people came from many different lives, now on the night of April 14th , they all face a life or death crisis. Join Allan Zullo and these young survivors aboard the Titanic as they tell the tales they will never forget in the Titanic Young Survivors. This book is a collection of different tales of young survivors put together by Allan Zullo.
Why won't he? Seventeen-year-old Jack Thayer looks over the side of the sinking Titanic and stares into the frigid sea. There are no lifeboats left. He knows he has to jump, but can he?
These and other young people came from many walks of life. Among those on board were 13 newlywed couples some simply enjoying the trip of a lifetime, others crossing to America with dreams of starting a new life together. Titanic Love Stories tells the tales of these honeymooners. Featuring haunting portraits of all the sweethearts, these true stories of love, tragedy, heroism, and hope are more remarkable than any work of romantic fiction.
Panic, despair, shocking inefficiency, and a dash of heroism. Two lengthy narratives by passengers who had a thorough knowledge of the sea and by members of the ship's crew.
Recounts the colorful life of the gambler-hero who became the inspiration for Guys and Dolls's Sky Masterson, from his pre-PGA golf prowess to trading card tricks with Houdini, conning Al Capone and losing a million dollars to Minnesota Fats.
Great stories well told. Dive right into the heart of the action of the Titanic disaster. Would you trade your world for a soul? Ever since the fateful day when the little mermaid risked everything for a human soul, merpeople have been under lockdown—absolutely no surfacing.
Sea princess Mairin bristles under the restriction and blames humans for her confinement. If she can make the descendant fall in love with her, she will win back the freedom of her people. But as she gets to know the humans, her heart changes toward them. Mairin realizes she has made a bigger mistake than the little mermaid ever did.
Can she save the humans and her kingdom? The Cinderella books go together, but the other Fairy-tale Inheritance Series books can be read in any order as stand-alone novels. A tribute to the enduring power of family.
Ever since, in films, dramatizations, adaptations and books, the focus has mostly continued to be on the ones who died. The Titanic and the City of Widows It Left Behind focuses on another group of people—the widows and children of the crew who perished on board. Her great-grandmother had to raise five children with no breadwinner. Using original archive sources and with accounts from descendants of crew who also lost their lives, the book asks how these women survived through abject poverty and grief—and why their voices have been silent for so long.
A moving and involving story that corrects this neglect, told by a descendant of a Titanic widow. How most of them survived the grief and grinding hardship is a story worth the telling, as are the stories of those who did not survive the crushing pressures. The most dramatic marine disaster of modern times, the RMS Titanic tragedy captured the attention of the entire world.
The intensity of interest in the catastrophe has increased, particularly after discovery of the wreck off the coast of Newfoundland in the mids. The resulting literature is vast, including both scholarly and popular sources. Providing a critical and historiographical overview of that literature, this book offers a useful guide to researchers interested in the Titanic.
In an inspirational, often poignant account, a former Rhodes scholar describes his semester-long experiences of teaching U.
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