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Voyagers of the Titanic
Voyagers of the Titanic: Passengers, Sailors, Shipbuilders, Aristocrats, and the Worlds They Came From | Richard Davenport-Hines
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An astonishing work. Julian Fellowes, Creator and Executive Producer of Downton Abbey A book well worthy of marking the centenary of the crystal-clear night when the immense ship slid to her terrible doom. Simon Winchester, New York Times bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman It has been one hundred years since the sinking of the passenger liner Titanic in the North Atlantic, yet worldwide fascination with the epic tragedy remains as strong as ever. With Voyagers of the Titanic, Richard Davenport-Hines gives us a magnificent history of the people intimately connected with the infamous shipfrom deal-makers and industry giants, like J.P. 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.
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Loved it! The focus of the book is on the lives of the people who built, owned, crewed and sailed aboard the Titanic. Voyagers of the Titanic was written with such detail that it allowed me to gain a clearer understanding of the class stratification aboard. Ironically, in the end it was not class that determined whether a soul had the best chance of being saved; it was gender (and to an extent which side of the boat you chose to board a lifeboat).

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"Such sentiments were no solace to the bereaved families of Southampton. The majority of its 900 crew lived in the city: almost 700 of them died. At a single school, 125 children lost a father, a brother, or an uncle. What place, in these eulogies of chevaliers beyond reproach, could be allotted to the Southampton husbands, fathers, and sons who had perished by the order "women and children first"?"

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"The stores needed by an Olympic-class floating hotel were reckoned at 75,000 pounds of fresh meat; 11,000 pounds of fresh fish; 8,000 head of poultry and game; 6,000 pounds of bacon and ham; 2,500 pounds of sausages; 35,000 eggs..."

"Nobody can eat 50 eggs." Dragline, Cool Hand Luke

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"If you want to marry, be as good as gold. If you don't, be expensive." - Lady Duff Gordon

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Clevercactus

The suites had varied styles: Second Empire, Louis XIV, Louis XV, and Louis XVI, Tudor, Early Dutch, Old Dutch, Adams, Hepplewhite, Regency, Italian Renaissance, Georgian, Colonial, Jacobean, and Queen Anne.

Clevercactus Sounds like a motel I stayed at once on Route 66. 8y
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