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Caitlin Doughty - Dead in the Water, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2027

Dead in the Water

The Lost Passengers of the Titanic

Av Caitlin Doughty

289 kr

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Millions of people trust Caitlin Doughty to explore dark subjects with empathy and humor. Now, in her most ambitious work to date, Doughty explains what actually happened to the 1,500 people who died the night of history’s most famous shipwreck. Alongside white-knuckle tales of survival and mass death during the disaster, Doughty foregrounds the haunting stories of lesser-known victims, profiles the telegraph-cable-repairmen–turned–seafaring-undertakers who pulled the floating bodies from the wreck site in the North Atlantic, and explores how a salvage company came to control the human artifacts—shoes, hairbrushes—carried and worn by the dead passengers and crew. Along the way she shares the surprising science of death at sea, and how the Titanic tragedy led to mass casualty protocols still used today. The first book of its kind on one of the most famous events in human history, Dead in the Water explores how we face the void and accept (or refuse to accept) death in extreme conditions.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2027-04-06
  • Mått: 152 x 229 x undefined mm
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 384
  • Förlag: WW Norton & Co
  • ISBN: 9780393249934
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Caitlin Doughty is a writer, documentarian, and death-industry reform advocate. She has written three New York Times bestsellers: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, From Here to Eternity, and Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? and created the “Ask a Mortician” series. She lives in upstate New York.

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"I know, I know. What new can possibly be written about the Titanic and its 1,500 victims? If best-selling storyteller Caitlin Doughty is doing the writing, quite a lot, it turns out, because she uses the famous wreck to study our fear of and fascination with death itself. She goes beyond the rescue to the recovery, explaining the myriad ways the passengers actually died at sea, how their personal effects ended up in the hands of a salvage company, and how the survivors came to terms with the tragic deaths of their loved ones—or didn’t. Trust me, you haven't read this one before, and you won't be able to put it down."

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