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Mike Herbold (Mikeh)
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 11, 2000 - 7:44 am: | 
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This book by Judith Geller was published in early 1998. Unlike typical Titanic books which trace the construction of the ship and the sinking and rescue, this book concentrates on the passengers only.
In no particular order, but starting with first class, Geller writes a two or three page biography on many of the women and children on board. The stress is on the surviving passengers, but Mrs. Strauss gets a section, as do a few others that died. You will find many facts and family pictures not seen on Encyclopedia Titanica or in other books.
It was a minor irritation for me, but my only gripe is the use of pictures of items that were recovered from the wreck that were not necessarily related to an individual passenger, but which might have been. For example, "This cut crystal vase with its fluted edge might have held the American Beauty roses at the dinner May and Jacques (Futrelle) enjoyed on their last night together."
Since my own area of interest is the individual passengers (especially the ones who ended up in California) rather than the ship itself, this is still one of my favorite books. |
Anthony Cunningham
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Username: anthony
Post Number: 21
Registered: 7-2008
| | Posted on Thursday, January 1, 2009 - 11:27 am: |
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Update:
Thanks to ALL of you on E.T. who have offered so many private messages of congratulations about 'Titanic, the last survivor'.
Sheila and I are delighted that the book has gained such a lot of support already.
A number of people have been emailing me to ask how to purchase the book. It is probably best at this point to do this directly through the publisher (see top of this thread). I don't think Amazon have had their ordering information updated yet. Those of you in the Southampton area can purchase the book from Waterstones and the Maritime Museum. I hope this helps! |
