A Rare Titanic Family
The Caldwells' Story of Survival
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Pages: 208
Illustrations: rare photos of the family that survived
Trim size: 6.000in x 9.000in
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Pub Date: 03/01/2012
ISBN: 9-781-5883-8282-5
List Price: $23.95
eBook
Pub Date: 03/01/2012
ISBN: 9-781-6030-6116-2
List Price: $21.95
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A Rare Titanic Family
The Caldwells' Story of Survival
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From author Julie Hedgepeth Williams, winner of the 2021 Kobre Award for Lifetime Achievement in Journalism History
Albert and Sylvia Caldwell were one of those rare Titanic families who lived through the tragedy at sea. Their lucky rescue aboard the Lifeboat 13 is told for the first time here. But the trip was only one part of a bigger nightmare. The Caldwells had been Presbyterian missionaries in Bangkok, Siam, but fled in what they described as a desperate journey around the world to save Sylvia’s health. Fellow missionaries, however, believed that the couple had plotted to renege on their contract at financial loss to the church. Not even sinking Titanic ended the hunt for the Caldwells. A Rare Titanic Family follows all the true-life plot twists of a family who successfully fled aboard the Titanic but never could get out from under the shadow the ship cast over them.
—Midwest Book Review
—Roger-Wilco
—Library Journal
—Knoxville Journal News
—Richmond Times-Dispatch
—Don Lynch, former vice president of the Titanic Historical Society, author of Titanic: An Illustrated History and Ghosts of the Abyss
—Lee Thursby, Christian Science Monitor
—Sandra Stiles, The Musings of a Book Addict
—Dustin Kaczmarczyk, German Titanic Society
—George Behe, author of On Board RMS Titanic
Winner
Ella Dickey Literacy Award, Missouri Cherry Blossom Literary Festival