Liner Retrospective and Renaissance

Name: Liner Retrospective and Renaissance
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ISBN: 9780393061666

ISBN-10: 0393061663

ISBN-13: 9780393061666

Edition: N/A

Authors: Philip Dawson, Stephen Payne

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A spectacularly illustrated account of the ocean liner's place in transportation and social history. The iconic ocean liner, with its towering dark hull and brilliant white superstructure, remains a powerful symbol of human endeavor. This unique two-hundred-year retrospective takes us from the liner's origins in mail services to its role as nineteenth-century mass transportation, in wartime and in immigration to the New World, and finally to its modern renaissance in the Queen Mary 2, the first liner to be built in thirty years. With cruising now a major tourist industry, this new liner has emerged with a clear stylistic lineage from some of the most illustrious vessels of the past. Along…

Book details

List price: $39.95
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/17/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 8.75" wide x 11.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.992
Language: English