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Author : Melvin Maddocks
Publisher : Time Life Medical
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Ocean liners
ISBN : 0809426641
Text and photographs describe the great passenger liners that traveled between the United States and Europe in the first half of the twentieth century.
Author : John G. Sayers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1851245308
Before the advent of commercial transatlantic flights in the early 1950s, the only way to travel between continents was by sea. In the golden age of ocean liners, between the late nineteenth century and the Second World War, shipping companies ensured their vessels were a home away from home, providing entertainment, dining, sleeping quarters and smoking lounges to accommodate passengers of all ages and budgets, for voyages that could last as long as three months.Secrets of the Great Ocean Liners leads the reader through each of the stages - and secrets - of ocean liner travel, from booking a ticket and choosing a cabin to shore excursions, dining, on-board games, social events, romances, and disembarking on arrival. Additional chapters disclose wartime voyages and disasters at sea. The shipping companies produced glamorous brochures, sailing schedules, voyage logs, passenger lists, postcards and menus, all of which help us to savour the challenges, etiquette and luxury of ocean liner travel. Diaries, letters and journals written on board also reveal a host of behind-the-scenes secrets and fascinating insights into the experience of travelling by sea. This book dives into a vast, unique collection to reveal the scandals, glamour, challenges and tragedies of ocean liner travel.
Author : William H. Miller
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Transportation
ISBN : UOM:39015007652749
193 black and white photographs covering the years from 1897-1927.
Author : Karl R. Zimmermann
Publisher : Boyds Mills Press
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1590785525
Ocean liners once sailed all the world's seas and played important roles in times of peace and war. Ships transported the rich and famous as well as millions of immigrants to new countries. Over time, airplanes changed the nature of travel and the role of the ocean liners. Today's cruise ships are dramatically different from the liners of old, bigger than ever, they are like small cities on the water.
Author : Denis Griffiths
Publisher : Thorsons Publishers
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 1852600160
Author : Anthony Burton
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-30
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781399049832
There has always been a romance around ocean liners, but this book looks behind the romance to show the reality of travelling the oceans of the world. The book starts with the first scheduled transatlantic crossings in the age of sail, then moves on through the development of the steamers and ends in the present day, when ocean liners have given way to airliners. All aspects of the subject are discussed. The experience of travelling by sea varied enormously from the luxury of first-class travel to the often brutal conditions endured by immigrants. Ship design developed in the race between competing companies to provide the most powerful ships. But while technology came into the fundamental design, when it came to décor, for many of the great liners the interiors looked back with a romanticised view of the past. It is not always realised that a great liner might have almost as many crew as passengers, and this looks at all those who kept the ships running, from the black gang in the engine room to the captain on the bridge. The result is a rounded view of what it meant to travel on some of the greatest ships ever built.
Author : William H. Miller
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015009799316
Some 200 superb photographs -- in long shots and close-ups -- capture exquisite interiors of world’s great "floating palaces" -- 1890s to 1980s: Titanic, �le de France, Queen Elizabeth, United States, Europa, more. Informative captions provide key details.
Author : Kurt Ulrich
Publisher : Tauris Parke
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1999-04-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1860643736
The mythology surrounding the Titanic overshadows the fact that the ship heralded a new age of transportation that forged the modern travel industry. The decades that followed the saga of the Titanic are laden with the names of even greater liners--the Ile du France, the Normandie, Queen Mary, the Queen Elizabeth, the S.S. United States and many others. This stunning book presents their fascinating history in words and beautiful photos.
Author : William H. Miller
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0486240568
186 photos of Ile de France, Normandie, Leviathan, Queen Elizabeth, United States, many others. Interior and exterior views.
Author : William H. Miller,Rob McAuley
Publisher : Trans-Atlantic Publications
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Ocean liners
ISBN : 0752210580
Author : Daniel Finamore,Ghislaine Wood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Ocean liners
ISBN : 1851779493
"The great age of ocean travel has long since passed, but ocean liners remain one of the most powerful and admired symbols of modernity. No form of transport was as romantic, remarkable, or contested, and ocean liner design became a matter of national prestige as well as an arena in which the larger dynamic s of global competition were played out.0This beautifully illustrated book considers over a century of liner design: from the striking graphics created to promote liners to the triumphs of engineering, and from luxurious interiors to on board fashion and activities. 'Ocean Liners' explores the design of Victorian and Art Deco 'floating palaces', sleek post-war liners as well as these ships' impact on avant-garde artists and architects such as Le Corbusier." -- publisher's description.
Author : William H. Miller
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Transportation
ISBN : UOM:39015012052091
This pictorial record describes the last great years of transatlantic travel up to the rise of cruise ships.
Author : William H. Miller
Publisher : History Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Ocean liners
ISBN : 0752464523
The great liners story
Author : William H. Miller
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-30
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780752485706
This illustrated and colourful history charts the hey-day of the great liners, those grand and lavish vessels that cruised around the world carrying their glamorous passengers from port to port. Decorated to the highest of finishes, fitted out in the most luxurious of styles, these floating palaces epitomised their opulent age. Their iconic names, from Titanic to Mauretania, from Queen Elizabeth to QE2, conjure up visions of power, grace, elegance and nostalgia for this golden age of travel.Written by maritime and cruise liner expert William Miller, and accompanied by stunning photographs, artworks, Did You Know facts and quotations, The Great Liners Story is a must-have addition to any maritime library.
Author : William H. Miller
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781445623443
The story in words and pictures of the Floating Palaces, the transatlantic liners that were as much floating art as a means of transport.