Buy this book on-line WILSON**, FRANCES: : HOW TO SURVIVE THE TITANIC Or The Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay.LONDON.BLOOMSBURY,2011. ISBN 9781408809228.
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Books have been written,films made; we have raised the TITANIC and watched her go down again... but out of the familiar wreckage Frances Wilson spins a new epic: when the ship hit the iceberg on 14 April 1912 and a thousand men,lighting their last cigarette,prepared to die,J. Bruce Ismay,the ship's owner and inheritor of
the White Star fortune,jumped into a lifeboat with the women and children and rowed away to safety.
Accused of cowardice and dictating the TITANIC'a excessive speed,Ismay became, according to one headline,'The Most Talked-of Man in the World'.The first victim of a press hate campaign,his reputation would never recover and while the other survivors were piecing together their accounts of the night,Ismay never spoke of his beloved ship again.
In the TITANIC's mailroom was a manuscript by the great narrator of the sea,Joseph Conrad: the story of a man who impulsively betrays a code of honour and lives on under the strain of intolerable guilt.But it was Conrad's great novel 'Lord Jim',in which a sailor abandons a sinking ship leaving behind the hundreds of passengers in his charge,which uncannily foretold Ismay's fate.
Conrad,the only major novelist to write about the TITANIC,knew better than anyone what ships can do to men and it is with the help of his wisdom that Frances Wilson unravels the reasons behind Ismay's jump and the afterlives of his action.
Using never-before-seen letters written by Ismay to the beautiful Marian Thayer,a first-class passenger with whom he had fallen in love during the voyage,Frances Wilson explores his 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 lost honour.
For those who survived the TITANIC the world was never the same again.
But as Wilson superbly demonstrates,we all have our own TITANICS,and we all need to find ways of surviving them.
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