encyclopedia titanica

An estimated 1 000 books have already been written on the liner and its fate A lot more are coming The challenge therefore for writers is to find a new way to tell the story For Richard DavenportHines whose justpublished Titanic Lives Migrants and Millionaires Conmen and Crew HarperPress has drawn lavish praise from the critics the answer lay not only in detailing the stories of the passengers from the upper class toffs to the political religious and economic refugees in third class but also those of the men who built and owned the ship and the crew who serviced her thus presenting a more complete overview of Edwardian society