Losing the Empress: A Personal Journey : the Empress of Ireland's Enduring ShadowDundurn, 2000 - 253 páginas The Empress of Ireland's last voyage ended on May 29, 1914, when she was rammed by a Norwegian coal-carrier in a fog patch on the St. Lawrence River near Rimouski. For David Creighton, her voyage still continues. In Losing the Empress, Creighton delves into the lives of his grandparents - Salvation Army officers who were lost on the Empress - and the lives of their five orphaned children who would soon be plunged into World War I. His discoveries reveal amazing details about the Empress, which sank in fourteen minutes with a greater loss of life than the Titanic disaster. Shipwreck nostalgia, last voyage dinners, Salvationists, the British Empire and the world wars fought to preserve it; everything comes into focus when the author joins Titanic discoverer Robert Ballard on a film shoot at the sunken liner's site. Losing the Empress lyrically traces a personal journey into the past and into the future. |
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... voyage. Everyone in my generation remembers that portrait, displayed on our living-room pianos; all asked about those people and were told the tragic story of the Empress. Speeches about the proposed museum go on at length, all in ...
... voyage on the QE2 . In the boring jumbo - jet era , we fancy another time of elegance , conviviality , haute cuisine . Our banquet is graced by the lieutenant - governor and many politicos . I ask David Zeni , author of Forgotten ...
... Voyage of the Empress of Ireland. Our diner-benefice starts a campaign to raise $900,000 for this project, seemingly inspired by the experimental theatre of Robert Lepage (a Quebec City resident) and Disney World: The public will ...
... voyage of the Empress of Ireland . It is 1999 , late March , two months earlier in the year than when she steamed along the river . So the bordering fields remain snowladen , and overcast skies lend a dreamlike clarity to the long ...
... Voyage of the Empress of Ireland will tell the tale - and something like it is already up and running in Orlando , Florida : Titanic- Ship of Dreams . I take a bus down to see it . A city guide in my motel mentions this attraction . It ...
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PART THREE THE POWER OF MYTH | 123 |
PART FOUR THE BLACK DINNER | 147 |
PART FIVE MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES | 193 |
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 254 |