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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... British soil of his lineage. “Our hearts are in Canada,” said my father. “This may be sentimentality but what would the world be without sentiment.” When sentiment is at war with reason, which should come first? For Herman Melville, the ...
... British seaman, going to sea at 15 and rising in the ranks. Then in fourteen minutes, the time it took for his ship to go down with 1,102 on board, he went from skipper of the Empress to lifeboat commander, pulling aboard as many ...
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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 |