{"product_id":"how-to-survive-the-titanic-paperback","title":"How to Survive the Titanic - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFrances Wilson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAward-winning historian Frances Wilson delivers a gripping new account of the sinking of the RMS \u003cem\u003eTitanic\u003c\/em\u003e, looking at the collision and its aftermath through the prism of the demolished life and lost honor of the ship's owner, J. Bruce Ismay. In a unique work of history evocative of Joseph Conrad's classic novel \u003cem\u003eLord Jim\u003c\/em\u003e, Wilson raises provocative moral questions about cowardice and heroism, memory and identity, survival and guilt--questions that revolve around Ismay's loss of honor and identity as his monolithic venture--a ship called \"The Last Word in Luxury\" and \"The Unsinkable\"--was swallowed by the sea and subsumed in infamy forever.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn April 14, 1912, as one thousand men prepared to die, J. Bruce Ismay, the owner of the RMS \u003cem\u003eTitanic\u003c\/em\u003e, jumped into a lifeboat filled with women and children and rowed away to safety. He survived the ship's sinking--but his life and reputation would never recover.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExamining Ismay through the lens of Joseph Conrad's prophetic novel \u003cem\u003eLord Jim\u003c\/em\u003e--and using Ismay's letters to the beautiful Marion Thayer, a first-class passenger with whom he had fallen in love during the voyage--biographer Frances Wilson explores the shattered shipowner's desperate need to tell his story, to make sense of the horror of it all, and to find a way of living with the consciousness of his lost honor. For those who survived the \u003cem\u003eTitanic\u003c\/em\u003e, the world was never the same. But as Wilson superbly demonstrates, we all have our own Titanics, and we all need to find ways of surviving them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 384\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.01 x 7.98 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 04, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45150699847782,"sku":"9780062094551","price":25.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/SmRJS3lDWVBncURtbWtrcGZyN2RNZz09.webp?v=1773384638","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/how-to-survive-the-titanic-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}