Voyagers of the Titanic: Passengers, Sailors, Shipbuilders, Aristocrats, and the Worlds They Came from

Davenport-Hines, Richard

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0061876860 ISBN 13: 9780061876868

Casa editrice: William Morrow & Co, 2013

Published to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, a history accompanied by black-and-white photos focuses on the passengers and illuminates the heroism, sacrifice, hope and love that emerged from the tragedy. 75,000 first printing.

Recensione:

“Here at last is the true memorial ... a book well worthy of marking the centenary of the crystal-clear night when the immense ship slid to her terrible doom” (Simon Winchester)

“An astonishing work, of meticulous research, which allows us to know, in painful detail, the men and women on that fateful voyage. Even now, a hundred years later, Mr. Davenport-Hines finds a new, and heart-breaking, story to tell.” (Julian Fellowes, Creator and Executive Producer of "Downton Abbey")

“Paints a provocative portrait of the “upstairs, downstairs” social stratification in play aboard the doomed ship. A-” (Entertainment Weekly)

“The story of the Titanic has been told many times; this one takes a sociological perspective, with the confident, graceful prose of fine fiction.” (Wall Street Journal)

“Impressive in both its writing and reporting... It’s a romp. You don’t know who will be strolling down the deck next.” (USA Today)

“A shattering human story that is also, when told as well as Davenport-Hines tells it, utterly compelling.” (Sunday Times (UK), lead review)

“Eloquent and absorbing... It will stay afloat long after the armada of other Titanic books have gone down.” (The Telegraph (UK))

“This will not be the last book on the Titanic, but it is a safe bet that there will not be a better.” (The Spectator (UK), lead review)

“Meticulous... detailed account.” (Women's Wear Daily.com)

“This intelligent book focuses not on the ship so much as its passengers. Bolstered by photographs of the people who built, staffed, sailed on and survived the Titanic, Davenport-Hines finds a slew of new points of view from which to scan history.” (Denver Post)

L'autore:

Richard Davenport-Hinesis the acclaimed biographer of W. H. Auden and the Macmillan dynasty. He is also the author of Proust at the Majestic: The Last Days of the Author Whose Book Changed Paris and The Pursuit of Oblivion: A Global History of Narcotics. He is a regular contributor to the U.K. publications Literary Review, Sunday Telegraph, Spectator, and the Times Literary Supplement.