Laurie Coulter Knihy

The complete story of the legendary ship, answering all the questions that children ask, putting myths to rest and confirming the truth.

Lavishly illustrated story of Lucile, Lady Duff Gordon, the farm girl who became the Queen of Fashion in the Edwardian era and survived the sinking of the Titanic.

Welches Kind hat nicht schon davon geträumt, ein Cowboy zu sein? Oder ein Goldgräber? Oder Rancher, Fallensteller oder Banditenbraut? Welche Berufe gab es eigentlich im Wilden Westen? Wie wurde man Lokomotivführer oder Revolverheld? Und was machte eigentlich genau ein Sheriff? Kurze, informative und unterhaltsame Texte und bunte Bilder in großem Format erklären die verschiedenen Berufe, die es früher gab, und wie die Menschen damals lebten. Eine aufregende Zeitreise in die faszinierende Welt des Wilden Westens, die nicht nur Wissen vermittelt, sondern auch Spaß macht!

Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage takes us behind the paneled doors of the Titanic’s elegant private suites to present compelling, memorable portraits of her most notable passengers. The Titanic has often been called "An exquisite microcosm of the Edwardian era,” but until now, her story has not been presented as such. In Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage, historian Hugh Brewster seamlessly interweaves personal narratives of the lost liner’s most fascinating people with a haunting account of the fateful maiden crossing. Employing scrupulous research and featuring 100 rarely seen photographs, he accurately depicts the ship’s brief life and tragic denouement and presents compelling, memorable portraits of her most notable passengers: millionaires John Jacob Astor and Benjamin Guggenheim; President Taft's closest aide, Major Archibald Butt; writer Helen Churchill Candee; the artist Frank Millet; movie actress Dorothy Gibson; the celebrated couturiere Lady Duff Gordon; aristocrat Noelle, the Countess of Rothes; and a host of other travelers. Through them, we gain insight into the arts, politics, culture, and sexual mores of a world both distant and near to our own. And with them, we gather on the Titanic’s sloping deck on that cold, starlit night and observe their all-too-human reactions as the disaster unfolds. More than ever, we ask ourselves, “What would we have done?”