This is an excellent book backed up with some high quality photos and I would very highly recommend it to our readers.
Shipping Today & Yesterday
This is an excellent book backed up with some high quality photos and I would very highly recommend it to our readers.
Shipping Today & Yesterday
This is an excellent book backed up with some very good quality photographs, many of which are rare and seldom seen. I would very highly recommend this book to our readers.
Shipping –Today and yesterday April 2013
This is an excellent book backed up with some very good quality photographs, many of which are rare and seldom seen. I would very highly recommend this book to our readers.
Shipping –Today and yesterday April 2013
A magnificent volume. Packed with the most beautiful artist-drawn picture postcards from the Golden-Age – liners, interiors, advertisements - it is a sheer delight. I'd challenge any non-postcard collector not to be entranced with the book's illustrations. It will be a friend for life.
Picture Postcard Monthly
A magnificent volume. Packed with the most beautiful artist-drawn picture postcards from the Golden-Age – liners, interiors, advertisements - it is a sheer delight. I'd challenge any non-postcard collector not to be entranced with the book's illustrations. It will be a friend for life.
Picture Postcard Monthly
This is an excellent book on an often neglected part of our maritime heritage.
Shipping - Today and Yesterday,
This is an excellent book on an often neglected part of our maritime heritage.
Shipping - Today and Yesterday,
The passenger steamship was the most excitement development of its age and in this colourful hardback Christopher Deakes & Tom Stanley pay homage to it and its many passengers, making this a gloriously nostalgic read for steamship enthusiasts everywhere. What should be noted is that this is not a book which focuses specifically on the ships themselves (their construction, design etc) rather an evocative look back, using first-hand accounts as indicated in the title, at the many and varied seafaring experiences that people enjoyed (or sometimes didn't) over the years. We are therefore offered a rich tapestry of interest to include many accounts of life on board, from the food, entertainment, romance, gossip, disaster, not to mention being dreadfully sick. These experiences are garnered from all aspects of society at the time; emigrants sailing in the hope of a better life, soldiers en route to distant outposts, or just the wealthy sailing the sea for leisure. The result is what the authors.. Read more
carl (customer review)
The passenger steamship was the most excitement development of its age and in this colourful hardback Christopher Deakes & Tom Stanley pay homage to it and its many passengers, making this a gloriously nostalgic read for steamship enthusiasts everywhere. What should be noted is that this is not a book which focuses specifically on the ships themselves (their construction, design etc) rather an evocative look back, using first-hand accounts as indicated in the title, at the many and varied seafaring experiences that people enjoyed (or sometimes didn't) over the years. We are therefore offered a rich tapestry of interest to include many accounts of life on board, from the food, entertainment, romance, gossip, disaster, not to mention being dreadfully sick. These experiences are garnered from all aspects of society at the time; emigrants sailing in the hope of a better life, soldiers en route to distant outposts, or just the wealthy sailing the sea for leisure. The result is what the authors.. Read more
carl (customer review)
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A Postcard History of the Passenger Liner
From around 1880 for almost 100 years shipowners commissioned a wealth of paintings that depicted, as well as their magnificent liners, the routes they travelled, their exotic destinations, and life on board. These paintings, rich in imagination and atmosphere, appeared on posters and postcards to advertise the companies and their ships; and so was… Read more...
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Coastal Passenger Liners of the British Isles
At the beginning of the last century it was possible to sail from London to Glasgow via the south coast ports and Belfast, returning along the east coast from either Dundee or Leith for as little as five pounds. Those were the days when 300 passengers were landed twice weekly at Grangemouth or Dundee from the London boat, and the coastal passenger… Read more...
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A Century of Sea Travel
This book 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. The pictures are memories of ships and places in times gone by, glimpses of steamship travel through the years. In memoirs and… Read more...
