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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... promoted to glory.” A wild Celtic dance performance, as in Titanic, ends our banquet. Moviegoers want to match the screen image with something in real life, and nobody can blame them for this. But to see the Empress as I do, in terms of ...
... PROMOTED TO GLORY: the military lingo of a bygone age. War being so evil, why bring that into religion? Because Christianity starts with evil. “Any of us could fail in some manner,” said Paul. “There's always disappointment in people ...
... promoted to glory.” Her victims entering the celestial beyond, breathing Earth's air no more, apotheosized. Now I was forced to see it as a big furry sea monster. The ship was actually there in space and time, a dream-image no longer ...
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9 | |
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 |