Lost Liners: From the Titanic to the Andrea Doria The Ocean Floor Reveals Its Greatest Ships
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| Rating | : | 4.38 (880 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0786862963 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-15 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Great Book I highly recommend this book. It is well written, with plenty of photographs and artwork, including some wonderful paintings by Kenneth Marshall. The book is a beautiful overview of ocean liner history, giving snapshots of individual liners and their stories through almost 100 years of history. The main focus of the book, however, is on early to mid twentieth century ocean travel.While the book does not give huge amounts of detail on ind. "Gone but not forgotten" according to Goodeye Closed. A great book if you're looking for something on the ocean liners of yesteryear. Full of history, information, and pictures.. A look back at the greatest ships to cross the oceans Umbral X Before the age of flight, the only way to cross the vast oceans was by boat-large ones that could hold thousands of people. Ocean liners. Companies from Cunard, to the White Star Line began to try to outdo each other by building the largest, fastest, and most luxurious liner in the world. One by one, ships like the Lusitania, Titanic and Olympic made its debut. And one by slow one, they soon sank into the waters they were made to sail on
Riding the wave of ocean liner nostalgia, Lost Liners presents the most comprehensive and spectacular volume ever--a guided tour encompassing the beginnings, heyday, and eventual decline of the great Atlantic express liners. Ken Marschall's lavish paintings depict the ships in their shining prime as well as in their eerily poignant underwater repose.