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A Century of Sea Travel: Personal Accounts from the Steamship Era de Christopher Deakes

A Century of Sea Travel: Personal Accounts from the Steamship Era

Autor Christopher Deakes, Tom Stanley
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 iul 2014
This is a voyage through the life of the passenger steamship, a voyage described by travellers who sailed on these vessels, and it carries within it their thoughts and experiences, mirrored here in words and pictures.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781848320819
ISBN-10: 1848320817
Pagini: 192
Ilustrații: more than 350 colour and B&W photographs and illustrations
Dimensiuni: 227 x 268 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0 kg
Editura: Seaforth Publishing

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The illustrations are a fascinating mixture of coloured postcards by well known marine artists from W L Wyllie to Charles Dixon, Kenneth Shoesmith and Odin Rosvenge, baggage labels, menus, posters, brochures, letters on steamship headed notepaper, and passengers' black and white snapshots of life on board. As such it is certainly a book to pick up and put down, look at and enjoy at random but it is much, much more than that. Woven in between this kaleidoscope of colour is an introduction, thirteen very full chapters, a bibliography and index and end papers illustrating, again in colour, over 200 flags and funnels of the major British steamship lines from between the two world wars. The authors have collected together and cleverly worked into their narrative, the experiences of sea travellers gleaned from their letters home, diaries, postcards and journals which capture at first hand what it was like to travel by sea in this golden age. The result is a book that becomes compulsive reading from cover to cover, where the pictures actually become almost a distraction. As a traveller by sea both on traditional sailing craft and on contemporary cruise ships, I found this book a fascinating read, well written and researched, and I would unhesitatingly recommend it to all ship enthusiasts. In fact it should be essential reading for all cruise operators and their passengers alike. - South West Soundings