" ... Tells the story of the ship its only voyage. It also includes biographies of six of those who did: among them Titanic's capttain Edward Smith and builder Thomas Andrews, John Jacob Astor, the richest man on board, and the bandmaster, Wallace Hartley, who played as the ship sank. Stephanie Barczewski traces their lives and careers and what brough all of them together on that fatal night"--Jacket.