The Liner: Retrospective and Renaissance

by Philip Dawson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393061663
• ISBN13: 9780393061666
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.2" x 11.1"