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Voyagers of the Titanic

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by Richard Davenport-Hines

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Late in the night of April 14, 1912, the mighty , a passenger liner traveling from Southampton, England, to New York City, struck an iceberg four hundred miles south of Newfoundland. Its sinking over the next two and a half hours brought the ship mythological in name and size one hundred years of infamy. Of the 2,240 people aboard the ship, 1,517 perished either by drowning or by freezing to death in the frigid North Atlantic waters. What followed the disaster was tantamount to a worldwide outpouring of grief: In New York, Paris, London, and other major cities, people lined the streets and crowded around the offices of the White Star Line, the 's shipping company, to inquire for news of their loved ones and for details about the lives of some of the famous people of their time. While many accounts of the follows the stories of the men, women, and children whose lives intersected on the vessel's fateful last day, covering the full range of first, second, and third class¬â‰  from plutocrats and captains of industry to cobblers and tailors looking for a better life in America. Richard Davenport-Hines delves into the fascinating lives of those who ate, drank, reveled, dreamed, and died aboard the mythic ship: from John Jacob Astor IV, the wealthiest person on board, whose comportment that night was subject to speculation and gossip for years after the event, to Archibald Butt, the much-beloved military aide to Theodore Roosevelt and William Taft, who died helping others into the 's creation, which involved larger-than-life figures such as J. P. Morgan, the ship's owner, and Lord Pirrie, the ship's builder. The memory of this tragedy still remains a part of the American psyche and brings that clear night back to us with all of its drama and pathos.
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    Penerbit

    Harper Collins

  • Tanggal Terbit

    12 May, 2015

    Penulis
    Richard Davenport-Hines
  • Bahasa

    Indonesia

    ISBN

    SCOOPG74457

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