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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... spirit, who found it impossible to understand mythology. However hard we try to embrace conventional religion, we have a natural tendency to see truth as factual, historical, and empirical. Karen Armstrong, The Battlefor God PART ONE.
... of Darkness, took keen interest in the Quebec City inquiry. “A charge of neglect and indifference in the matter of saving lives is the cruellest blow,” he noted. “The resentful sea-gods never do 16 LOSING THE EMPRESS.
... gods never do sleep,” and “mere mortals condemned to unending vigilance are no match for them.” The dessert finally arrives, fruit within a sturdy little dark-chocolate piano nobody knows how to disassemble politely. (Best way: pick up ...
... God be with you till we meet again! Keep love's bannerfloating o'er you;Smite death's threatening wave before you;God be with you till we meet again! Inhaling evergreen fragrance in the dark, I trace a final path those voyagers might ...
... God Be With You Till We Meet Again.” Of all the old memories I felt then, one stood out. Salvationist children had to attend the hall three times each Sunday — two services, plus Sunday school in mid-afternoon — and I had a friend, Ken ...
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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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