Gilded lives, fatal voyage [DAISY talking book] the Titanic's first-class passengers and their world

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Title:

Author:

Brewster, Hugh, author.

Added Author:

Ashby, Mark, narrator.

Publication Date:

2018

Publication Information:

Washington, D.C. : National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress, 2018. (Potomac Talking Book Services, recording studio)

Physical Description:

1 online resource (audio (10 hours, 27 minutes))

Abstract:

Profiles of the elite passengers on the doomed Titanic. Describes their personal histories and why they were on the voyage, their lives aboard the ship, and their fates during the evacuation of the ship and after. 2012.

General Note:

Digital audiobook in DAISY format.

Performers:

Narrated by: Mark Ashby.

Contents:

A rare gathering -- At the Cherbourg quay -- A nomadic hiatus -- The Palm Room -- "Queer lot of people" -- Queenstown -- Fellow travelers -- Private lives -- Shipboard coteries -- Designing woman -- A calm Sunday -- The last evening -- Collision and after -- To the lifeboats -- The final minutes -- Voices in the night -- The ship of sorrow -- Two continents stirred -- Postscript: Titanic after-lives.

Technical Details:

System requirements: NLS authorized digital talking book (dtb) player. Web version requires Internet access, BARD password and NLS authorized digital talking book player. Contact your cooperating library or the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress, for more information.

Full audio with structure.

Corporate Subject:

Titanic (Steamship)

Titanic (Steamship) -- Biography.

Subject Term:

Ocean travel -- Anecdotes.

Shipwreck victims -- Biography.

Shipwrecks -- North Atlantic Ocean.

Upper class -- United States -- Biography.

Genre:

Downloadable books.

Nonfiction.