The Maiden Voyage by Geoffrey Marcus hardcover -1969 Rare! - With foldout!

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Behold the Titanic! Majestic in conception, awesome in size, luxurious in its accommodations. The pride of the British merchant service, freighted with the rich and sailing to disaster.
For half a century the event that took place in the North Atlantic on April 14, 1912, has captured the imagination of people the world over. Considering the scale of wars, genocidal murders, assassinations, and holocausts that have wracked the globe in the years since, it is extraordinary what a grip the tragedy of the Titanic still exerts on us. For some, the sinking of the great ship, with the death of 1500 passengers and crew, is a symbol of the unforgiving sea; for others, it is a grandiosely eloquent symbol of a complacent Edwardian world sailing straight to its doom; for others still, it is a testament to man's hubris, folly, and naked ineptitude.
Over the years many writers have described this greatest of marine disasters, and their well-told accounts have