![]() ![]() ![]() In April 1912, six notable people were among those privileged to experience the height of luxury - first-class passage on “the ship of dreams”, the RMS Titanic: Lucy Leslie, countess of Rothes son of the British Empire Tommy Andrews American captain of industry John Thayer and his son, Jack Jewish American immigrant Ida Straus and American model and movie star Dorothy Gibson. ![]() “While there are many Titanic books, this is one readers will consider a favorite” ( Voyage). This original and “meticulously researched retelling of history’s most infamous voyage” (Denise Kiernan, New York Times best-selling author) uses the sinking of the Titanic as a prism through which to examine the end of the Edwardian era and the seismic shift modernity brought to the Western world. ![]()
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