Description
Lawrence Beesley was an English teacher and journalist who survived the sinking of the fateful RMS Titanic. He recalls the tragedy in amazing detail in a book that was published just nine weeks after going through that ordeal. Beesley’s account of what happened to the Titanic shed some light as to what it felt like to be on the deck watching life boats sail away as well as from the lifeboat itself. In 1912, Beesley unknowingly embarked on the RMS Titanic to travel towards America. Little did he know about the tragedy that was about to unfold. In April that year, the Titanic hit an iceberg and the ship slowly started to sink. In amidst the chaos that followed, few men kept their wits about them in order to record the event in accurate detail. Few men besides Beesley, who, as a science teacher himself, managed to remember everything in detail. He recounts two women who had tried to climb in a lifeboat only to be told that they are to go back on deck where their own lifeboats awaited. He witnessed desperate people jumping off the large ship, women screaming for their lost children, and fear at every step. The dreadful experience was imprinted in the mind of the author, who, using his journalistic skills, managed to put everything on paper. The book is not only a recollection of the events that happened on that fateful April, but it also contains nautical detail as well as accurate portrayals of the ship’s degradation as well as the degradation of people’s behavior. ”The Loss of the S.S. Titanic: Its Story and Its Lessons” is an amazingly detailed account of the Titanic disaster written in hair-raising clarity, as well as a lesson we should never forget.
Product ID: 9781775427117
Sku: KE-S6L1-9T6L
