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Ocean Liners: An Illustrated History Kindle Edition

by Peter Newall (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
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“A truly comprehensive publication, running the gamut from the first Atlantic sail-enhanced steamers to today’s remaining handful of combi-liners.” —Maritime Matters
 
Before the advent of the jet age, ocean liners were the principal means of transport around the globe, and carried migrants and business people, soldiers and administrators, families, and lone travelers to every corner of the world. Though the ocean liner was born on the North Atlantic it soon spread to all the other oceans and in this new book the author addresses this huge global story.
 
The account begins with Brunel’s Great Eastern and the early Cunarders, but with the rise in nationalism and the growth in empires in the latter part of the 19th century, and the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, the colonial powers of Spain, France, and Germany soon established shipping lines of their own, and transpacific routes were opened up by Japanese and American lines. The golden age between the two world wars witnessed huge growth in liner traffic to Africa, Australia and New Zealand, India, and the Far East, the French colonies, and the Dutch East and West Indies, but then, though there was a postwar revival, the breakup of empires and the arrival of mass air travel brought about the swan song of the liner.
 
Employing more than 250 stunning photographs, the author describes not just the ships and routes, but interweaves the technical and design developments, covering engines, electric light, navigation and safety, and accommodation. A truly unique and evocative book for merchant ship enthusiasts and historians.
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Lushly illustrated with more than 250 photographs, this book by shipping expert and historian Newall describes ocean liners and their routes and interweaves the technical and design developments that powered the world’s principal means of transport before the jet age.

About the Author

Peter Newall is recognised as one of the world’s leading passenger shipping experts. After a successful career at British Airways he is now a full time cruise journalist, lecturer and shipping historian. He has written hundreds of articles and nine highly acclaimed maritime history books including the definitive fleet histories of Cunard, Orient and Union-Castle Lines. His extensive collection of historic merchant shipping images, now known as the Newall Dunn Collection, is one of the largest in private hands.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B078XT3ZFJ
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Seaforth Publishing; Illustrated edition (January 30, 2018)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 30, 2018
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 157974 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
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  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 388 pages
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Jonathan Boonzaier
5.0 out of 5 stars A beautifully produced book with a interesting and eclectic selection of ...
Reviewed in the United States on June 17, 2018
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A beautifully produced book with a interesting and eclectic selection of ocean liners from around the world. The joy of this book is in the photography - the subjects, some of which were predicatble selections while many others were unuasual and even unheard of. The selection is backed up by the fine quality of the printing. A well researched text accompanies the photographs, although of course the full story of the long and eventful careers many of the ships featured could not be fully told due to space constraints.
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Derek
5.0 out of 5 stars Recommended ocean liner enthusiasts
Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2021
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The book contains a good balance of text and photographs/pictures. The text gives quite a lot of detail about the ships it deals with, while the photographs and pictures are of good quality and nicely illustrate the ships involved.
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Cynthia
5.0 out of 5 stars Que época, lástima que se ha ido.
Reviewed in the United States on November 2, 2019
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Libro muy completo y bien realizado. Lo recomiendo.
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Peter S.
2.0 out of 5 stars This original publication would be a very good and worthy starting point
Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2018
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This is an extremely disappointing epitaph for a man who was apparently a highly respected ocean liner historian up until his very recent passing. This book was highly publicized ---- for years before its actual completion and release; and was memorable for its continuous publication delays and release postponements etc; which are now explainable. I expected a much more voluminous book and was startled by its brevity. There are numerous "rabbit trails" identified in the book which could have been used to explore history and expand it to the probably intended length and depth of Mr. Newell's original objective. This abbreviated publication is very disappointing >>> very important ships are named but with no pictures and are given a truncated history. Mr. Newall apparently just ran out of time. This original publication would be a very good and worthy starting point, i.e. foundation, for a second edition which would probably reflect the original intention and objective of the author.. Regardless, the current edition could have been helped a great deal IF the font size of the print was increased a couple of points AND if the names of the ships were bolded. Right now, a magnifying glass is needed to read the book. Shame on the editor!! Mr.Newell's family should consider finding an author interested in such a project.. . .
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Antonio Angelicchio
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Ocean Liners of the 20th Century
Reviewed in Canada on October 10, 2023
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Having traveled numerous times on these ships.

Great to reminisce sailing on these wonderful ships.

This book captures the essence !

Wonderful Book!
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louy
5.0 out of 5 stars Glancing at the Evolution of Passengerships.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 20, 2020
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So many books have been written about passenger ships...most with colour pictures...this one is different and the late author Swansong use of Black and White stock is fully justified once you read it.
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Christian Hellmann
5.0 out of 5 stars Sehr empfehlenswert
Reviewed in Germany on January 6, 2019
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Ein hervorragendes Buch, sehr zu empfehlen
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Hanseat1987
4.0 out of 5 stars Well Done!
Reviewed in Germany on November 16, 2020
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A nice overview of well-known and lesser known passenger liners, omitting the shallow Mr-Ocean-liner-style text, but offering some deeper insights. The pictures are of good quality and a wide range of vessels is dealt with. It is a picture history and not a comprehensive history of the world's deep-sea passenger shipping so the criticism of one of my fellow reviewer is questionable. The book definitely is one step further than a mere coffee-table volume and substantially better than WH Miller's assembly-line works. Furthermore, the author is accurate as to the spelling of foreign names, especially the German ones. In this respect many English-speaking writers - even Mr Hutchings in his new book on RMS Mauretania - are hopelesssly inaccurate. Too bad that Mr Newall restrained himself to encyclopaedical concepts and did not dare write a comprehensive volume like Fox, Kludas or Dawson.
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J Slater
5.0 out of 5 stars Comprehensive study of liners across the world.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 2, 2018
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It deals with liners on worldwide routes, many other books concentrate on the North Atlantic routes.
It's comprehensive but by necessity guite lengthy.
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