Great ocean liners : the heyday of luxury travel / Ian Dear.
By: Dear, Ian [author.]
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BookPublisher: London : B.T. Batsford Ltd., 1991Copyright date: ©1991Description: 160 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 29 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0713460261 (hardback).Subject(s): Ocean travel | Ocean linersDDC classification: 387.2432 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU National Maritime College of Ireland Library Lending | 387.2432 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00180649 |
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A pictorial history of travel and social life on the great ocean liners, from the beginning of the 19th century up to the 1950s. The book covers the romance and glamour of ocean travel, especially when travelling on luxury passenger ships like the Queen Mary and the Normandie. Archival photographs reveal the flavour of travelling onboard ship and emphasize the contrast between the luxury of first-class travel and the discomfort of the steerage class. The author has also published The Great Days of Yachting, Fastnet and Shipwreck.
Includes index.
Travel by ocean liner -- Full steam power -- Iron hull and screw propeller -- Early shipping lines -- The P & O Line -- The Cunard Line -- The Inman and American lines -- Passengers and immigrants -- Steel construction and super-liners -- Social manners and romance -- International competition -- The 1914-18 War and the inter-war years -- The Ile de France -- A new breed of liner -- The post-war era -- A history in photographs.