Atria

9781501176722

STARRED REVIEW

The Ship of Dreams

British historian Gareth Russell chronicles six passengers’ histories and fates, putting a human face on the sinking of the Titanic.

Share this Article:

Review of ‘The Ship of Dreams’

More than a hundred years ago, on her maiden voyage from the United Kingdom to New York, the “unsinkable” RMS Titanic collided with an iceberg in the North Atlantic and sank. Of the 2,208 people aboard the ship, 1,496 passengers and crew died, and 712 survived. Hundreds of books and articles, memoirs and interviews, two…

Sign Up

Stay on top of new releases: Sign up for our newsletter to receive reading recommendations in your favorite genres.