Bibliograph

Titanic, first accounts, edited with an introduction by Tim Maltin ; afterword by Nicholas Wade

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Titanic, first accounts, edited with an introduction by Tim Maltin ; afterword by Nicholas Wade

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Titanic, first accounts

Oclc number

729341535

Responsibility statement

edited with an introduction by Tim Maltin ; afterword by Nicholas Wade

Series statement

Penguin classics deluxe edition

Summary

"Just in time for the centennial of the sinking of the Titanic, this graphic deluxe edition compiles first hand accounts, testimonies, and letters by notable Titanic survivors, including Archibald Gracie, Lawrence Beesley, Elizabeth W. Shutes, and the "unsinkable" Molly Brown. Full of historically accurate details and an afterword by Nicholas Wade, the grandson of Lawrence Beesley, Titanic Survivor and author of THE LOSS OF THE S.S. TITANIC."

Table Of Contents

Machine generated contents note: TITANIC, FIRST ACCOUNTS -- TITANIC CLASSICS -- Lawrence Beesley's The Loss of the Titanic -- ch. IV "The Sinking of the Titanic Seen from a Lifeboat" -- Archibald Gracie's The Truth About the Titanic -- ch. I The Last Day Aboard Ship -- ch. II Struck by an Iceberg -- ch. III The Foundering of the Titanic -- ch. IV Struggling in the Water for Life -- ch. V All Night on Bottom of Half-Submerged Upturned Boat -- ch. VI The Port Side: Women and Children First -- ch. VII Starboard Side: Women First, but Men when There Were No Women -- U.S. Senate and British Inquiries and Marconi Report -- US Inquiry (Day 13) / Daniel Buckley -- US Inquiry (Day 7) / John Collins -- British Inquiry (Day 6) / Charles Joughin -- Report to his Employer, Marconi Co., April 27, 1912 / Harold S. Bride -- NEWSPAPER FIRST ACCOUNTS -- New York Times, April 19, 1912 / Harold S. Bride -- New York Evening Journal, April 19, 1912 / Laura Cribb --Contents note continued: New York Sun, April 19, 1912 / Hugh Woolner -- Newport Herald, May 28 & 29, 1912 / Margaret Brown -- Hartford Times, April 19, 1912 / William T. Sloper -- Washington Post, April 19, 1912 / Vera Dick -- Brooklyn Daily Eagle, April 19, 1912 / Walter Nichols -- THE TRAGIC HOME-COMING -- Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters / Logan Marshall -- ch. XV Jack Thayer's Own Story of the Wreck -- ch. XVI Incidents Related by James McGough -- ch. XI Preparations on Land to Receive the Sufferers -- ch. XII The Tragic Home-Coming -- ch. XXI Searching for the Dead -- 1912--2012 A SURVIVOR AND THE CENTENNIAL -- New York Times, April 29, 1912 / Lawrence Beesley -- New York Times, May 8, 1912 / Lawrence Beesley

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