How to Survive the Titanic - by Frances Wilson (Paperback)This item is not available

The Titanic: The Last Word in Luxury is 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.

Award-winning historian Frances Wilson delivers a unique work of history evocative of Joseph Conrad's classic novel Lord Jim, raising 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 was swallowed by the sea and subsumed in infamy forever.

With a focus on Ismay's letters to the beautiful Marion Thayer, a first-class passenger with whom he had fallen in love during the voyage, Wilson explores the shattered shipowner's desperate need to tell his story, to make sense of the horror of it all, and to find a way of living with the consciousness of his lost honor.

This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the Titanic disaster and its cultural associations, as well as those seeking a deeper understanding of the human experience of survival and guilt.