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Cruise Ships: The World's Most Luxurious Vessels Kindle Edition

by Peter C. Smith (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
3.9 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
The stunning elegance and luxurious interiors of todays vast fleet of cruise liners remains unrecorded in all but holiday brochures. This book gives a complete overview of the cream of these ships, todays queens of the sea. Each liner is illustrated and described with color illustrations of external and interior views. Details of the design, building and service history of each vessel are provided with vital statistics of the ship and its facilities.Among the ships included are Cunards Queen Victoria and Queen Mary 2, the big new Princess Line liners—Ruby, Grand Sea and Celebrity Eclipse, the two Ocean Village ships and the largest of the P&O liners Ventura, Oceana, Arcadia, Aurora and Artemis. This is a book of reference for maritime enthusiasts, would-be holiday cruisers and those who have been passengers.
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    481 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Pen & Sword Maritime
  4. Publication date
    June 13, 2011
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    190.5 MB
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Peter C. Smith is well-known to aviation and maritime history readers. He has written over 67 previously published books. Amongst these are Skua, Detroyer Leader, Into the Minefields and Naval Warfare in the English Channel 1939-1945, all published by Pen & Sword.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00DN5U7RU
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pen & Sword Maritime (June 13, 2011)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 13, 2011
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 190.5 MB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 481 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.9 out of 5 stars 30 ratings

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Peter C. Smith is Professor of Health Policy at the Imperial College Business School.

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  • jeff samuelson
    5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome book - 1st rate.
    Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2013
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    Cruise Ships was very well written. Very complete with a lot of great photos. I got it as a gift, but went through it before I wrapped it. My friends loved it.
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  • Richard
    3.0 out of 5 stars Three Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2016
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    Did not realized it was just a listing of ships No interior pictures.
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  • Judy Spiva
    5.0 out of 5 stars Very nice book
    Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2012
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    This book was a gift for my son and he loved it, arrived on time and great shape. Great job
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  • KC
    2.0 out of 5 stars unexpected
    Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2013
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    I thought there would be great images inside the ships. This was a list of facts. That's fine, but should have been shared. The gift recipient was happy that's the only thing that saved the sale.
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  • TomEnroute
    1.0 out of 5 stars What's wrong with this picture?
    Reviewed in the United States on April 8, 2011
    Anyone who writes about "the world's most luxurious vessels" and puts a photo of a Carnival ship on the cover obviously does not know what he is writing about. Carnival is the world's most mass market cruise line; there is nothing luxurious about it. They don't pretend to be luxurious. They are so successful at cruises for the masses that they bought most of the truly luxurious cruise lines and let them go after the upscale business under their own brand names (Cunard, Holland America, etc).
    10 people found this helpful
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  • rush1313
    1.0 out of 5 stars Dull Boat Book
    Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2013
    Exterior photographs of boats, stats on boats, boats on boats. No luxury detailed, boats, boats, boats. Did I happen to mention that this volume is full of dull no food, just boats. Not ships. Boats.
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  • Vicki Blow
    5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic pictures!
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 24, 2020
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    This book is perfect, thank you, great statistics and fantastic pictures for a six-year-old who is obsessed with Cruise Ships.
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  • Neal Taylor
    3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting but lacking pictures.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 29, 2014
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    A well researched book and as the author says one that will be added to over the years, however, whilst it was fascinating to see the ship's from the outside there were no photos of the interiors which from a passengers point of view is surely the most important part. Still enjoyable especially if you like your facts and figures. (I personally found it very interesting reading the names of the people who christened the ship's, some very unlikely people amongst them!)
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  • lorraine
    2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 27, 2014
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    I ordered this for a present and was very disappointed when it arrived. Much smaller than I had expected and at least the first half of the book consisted of nothing more than pages and pages showing a small picture of each boat and a dull list of features. I had hoped the book would be much more in depth on the ships, contain far more photos and provide information which would help readers decide which would suit their holiday best. Instead this is basically the equivalent of a trainspotter guide for cruise ships.
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  • epaminondas mavrokefalos-black
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 30, 2013
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    The book gives much information about cruise ships and has many good photos. I think this information cannot be found in other books.
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  • Gardening Pensioner
    4.0 out of 5 stars Cruising
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 4, 2014
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    I purchased this ebook for use on my iPad and it downloaded with no problems. The book is very useful although I would had preferred a 2014 version and not 2010. Will keep a look out for the newer version when it becomes available for downloading.
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