There were a lot of cigars too.

RMS Titanic

Did you know that there were 300 nutcrackers and 216,216 potatoes aboard the Titanic, and that a third-class ticket cost $26.76?

This week, on the 101st anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, Geist is offering you:

  • 1 signed copy of Impact: The Titanic Poems—a brilliant and soulful collection by Billeh Nickerson and
  • 4 issues of Geist—Canada's unsinkable literary magazine.
All this for the price of a third-class ticket aboard the Titanic—$26.76, including guaranteed safe shipping!

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Offer expires April 19, 2013, 11:59 pm PST



Average price of a third class ticket aboard the Titanic was £5.5 and the CDN to GBP exchange rate was .206 from 1890 until World War I.

Billeh Nickerson is a writer-editor extraordinaire and the author of The Asthmatic Glassblower, Let Me Kiss it Better, McPoems and Impact.


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