Losing the Empress: A Personal JourneyDundurn, 2000 M09 1 - 284 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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... Ballard, who sleuthed the Titanic's final resting-place. This man of science told me that in youth, he locked his grandmother and himself in a room for all-out argument to make her accept evolutionary theory. Score one for the head ...
... Ballard's discovery of the Titanic: “Here I was living in Rimouski, aware about this shipwreck and yet understanding so little.” Soon he conceived the quest of his life, to reconstruct the last fourteen minutes endured by the Empress ...
... Ballard's view of the Empress: she belonged on the ocean surface, and now on the bottom. Not a sentimental matter, but one of deep importance for the future. Ballard spoke of Tutankhamen's tomb, stripped of relics because it was thought ...
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51 | |
PART THREE THE POWER OF MYTH | 123 |
PART FOUR THE BLACK DINNER | 147 |
PART FIVE MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES | 193 |
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 254 |
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Losing the Empress: A Personal Journey : the Empress of Ireland's Enduring ... David Creighton Vista previa limitada - 2000 |