How to Survive the Titanic The Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay

Name: How to Survive the Titanic The Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay
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ISBN: 9780062094544

ISBN-10: 0062094548

ISBN-13: 9780062094544

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Authors: Frances Wilson

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Award-winning historian Frances Wilson delivers a gripping new account of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, looking at the collision and its aftermath through the prism of the demolished life and lost honor of the ship’s owner, J. Bruce Ismay. In a unique work of history evocative of Joseph Conrad’s classic novel Lord Jim, Wilson raises provocative moral questions about cowardice and heroism, memory and identity, survival and guilt—questions that revolve around Ismay’s loss of honor and identity as his monolithic venture—a ship called “The Last Word in Luxury” and “The Unsinkable”—was swallowed by the sea and subsumed in infamy forever.

Book details

List price: $29.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 10/11/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Frances Wilson is the author of Literary Seductions, which was praised by Alain de Botton as 'psychologically rich and wise', and The Courtesan's Revenge, which was described as "a wonderful biography ... Witty and sharp' by Jane Ridley in the Spectator. She lives in London with her daughter.



Map



At Sea



Chance



Luckless Yamsi



Youth



These Bumble-like Proceedings



On Land



The Convergence of the Twain



The Secret Sharer



The Super Captain



Ismay's Unrest


Afterword


Notes


Bibliography


Acknowledgements


Index