Research Catalog

Title

Titanic : a night remembered / Stephanie Barczewski.

Author

Barczewski, Stephanie L.

Publication

London ; New York : Hambledon and London, 2004.

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Description

xviii, 382 p., [16] pages of plates : ill., ports.; 24 cm.

Summary

" ... Tells the story of the ship its only voyage. It also includes biographies of six of those who did: among them Titanic's capttain Edward Smith and builder Thomas Andrews, John Jacob Astor, the richest man on board, and the bandmaster, Wallace Hartley, who played as the ship sank. Stephanie Barczewski traces their lives and careers and what brough all of them together on that fatal night"--Jacket.

Subject

• Titanic (Steamship)
• Shipwrecks > North Atlantic Ocean
• Shipwrecks > North Atlantic Ocean

Genre/Form

• Literature
• Littérature.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 366-370) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. What have we struck? -- 2. The best traditions of the sea -- 3. Heroes and villains -- 4. Jack Phillips -- 5. Wallace Hartley -- 6. Thomas Andrews -- 7. Edward Smith -- 8. William Murdoch -- 9. Belfast -- 10. Southampton -- 11. Queenstown -- appendix 1. [Who escaped in which boat?] -- appendix 2. [Joseph Conrad and George Bernard Shaw on the Titanic] -- 1. "Some reflections on the loss of the Titanic" : English review, May 1912 / Joseph Conrad -- 2. "The Titanic : some unmentioned morals" : Daily news, 14 May 1912 / George Bernard Shaw -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

ISBN

1852854340

LCCN

^^2004303406

OCLC

54993009

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library