How to Survive the Titanic: The Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay Paperback - 2012
by Wilson, Frances
- Used
- Paperback
Description
Standard delivery: 4 to 14 days
Details
- Title How to Survive the Titanic: The Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay
- Author Wilson, Frances
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition New
- Pages 384
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial
- Date 2012-03-27
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0062094556_used
- ISBN 9780062094551 / 0062094556
- Weight 0.62 lbs (0.28 kg)
- Dimensions 7.98 x 5.3 x 1.01 in (20.27 x 13.46 x 2.57 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code B
About Mediaoutletdeal1 Virginia, United States
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
From the rear cover
On April 14, 1912, as one thousand men prepared to die, J. Bruce Ismay, the owner of the RMS Titanic, jumped into a lifeboat filled with women and children and rowed away to safety. He survived the ship's sinking--but his life and reputation would never recover.
Examining Ismay through the lens of Joseph Conrad's prophetic novel Lord Jim--and using Ismay's letters to the beautiful Marion Thayer, a first-class passenger with whom he had fallen in love during the voyage--biographer Frances Wilson explores the shattered shipowner's desperate need to tell his story, to make sense of the horror of it all, and to find a way of living with the consciousness of his lost honor. For those who survived the Titanic, the world was never the same. But as Wilson superbly demonstrates, we all have our own Titanics, and we all need to find ways of surviving them.
