Transatlánticos: libros - historia y buques

Great Passenger Ships 1950-1960

The 1950s was a fascinating decade for the great liners. After the global devastation of two decades of war and Depression, shipyards were creating one new liner after another, it seemed, to rebuild and renew passenger ship services all over the world. There were the likes of the Kungsholm and Oslofjord from Scandinavia, the French Flandre and a succession of new liners from P&O-Orient, the Italian Line, Messageries Maritimes and many more.

The new hopeful era of the 1950s was highlighted by such brilliant, headline-making ships as the speedy United States, breaking records on an unprecedented scale, the engines-aft Southern Cross and the mastless Orsova. Showcased beautifully by the stunning images and nostalgic outlook of prolific maritime historian William H. Miller, this book shines a well-earned spotlight on some of the world's most popular passenger liners.

Detalle del libro

Autor:	William Miller
Presentación:	96 páginas, 22.5 x 25 cm, tapa blanda
Ilustración:	90 fotos en b/n y 50 a color
Idioma:	Inglés
Editorial:	The History Press Ltd (GB, 2016)
ISBN:	9780750963077

100 Years of Cruise Ships in Colour

This latest book from William H. Miller presents 150 photographs, all in rich colour, across a span of almost 100 years: from the 1920s to the start of the current cruising boom.
It includes many early, often seasonal, liners; then the more purposeful generation of 'floating hotels' that began in the 1960s.

There are favourites, such as the pre-Second World War Franconia, Reliance, Nieuw Amsterdam and Normandie; then, in greater numbers, a 'fleet' starting from the 1950s and '60s - ships such as the Caronia, Andes, Queen of Bermuda, Nassau, Italia, Bahama Star, Reina Del Mar, Oceanic, Skyward, Song of Norway, Hamburg, Royal Viking Star and Queen Elizabeth 2.
Finally, steaming into the twenty-first century, we see the likes of the Royal Princess, Statendam, Crystal Symphony, Oriana, Queen Mary 2, Allure of the Seas and Viking Star.

Detalle del libro

Autor:	William H. Miller
Presentación:	117 páginas, 22.5 x 24.5 x 1.3 cm, tapa dura
Ilustración:	150 fotos y color
Idioma:	Inglés
Editorial:	The History Press Ltd (GB, 2021)
ISBN:	9780750996105

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 born a whole genre that produced tens of thousands of images that form a wonderful record of the great era of the passenger liner.

Here, bought vividly to life in more than 500 colourful postcards, are the ships in which so many of our predecessors sailed, as emigrants, soldiers or administrators in distant lands, or simply as tourists. These cards - now highly collectible - show how the ships developed over the years, and are also a fine tribute to the artists who painted them. A glossary of some 170 illustrators forms an important reference section in the book; the author also gives useful advice on collecting.

This paperback edition will be sought after by postcard collectors as well as liner enthusiasts, and by all those with an interest in the vanished world of elegant travel on the finest ships of their day.

Detalle del libro

Autor:	Christopher Deakes
Presentación:	160 páginas, 24 x 29.5 x 1.2 cm, tapa blanda
Ilustración:	más de 500 ilustraciones y color
Idioma:	Inglés
Editorial:	Seaforth Publishing (GB, 2012)
ISBN:	9781848321519

Great Mediterranean Passenger Ships

It is hard to think of the passenger liners from the golden era of Mediterranean cruising without also conjuring the nostalgic, dream-like vision of azure-blue waters, bright sunshine and swimming pools with clusters of umbrellas and sunbathing passengers.

The great age of Mediterranean passenger liners began in the 1920s when the Italians built their first big ships, such as the Augustus, Saturnia and Conte Grande. In the 1930s, things got really interesting with the creation of the superliners Rex and Conte di Savoia.
In the 1950s and '60s, as Italy built a huge post-war fleet, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Turkey and Israel commissioned their biggest ships yet.

William Miller has written ninety books on passenger ships and is an acknowledged world expert in his field.
Full of colour and the first-hand memories of passengers and crew, this endearing reflection on the majestic world of Mediterranean travel cannot be missed. Quick, the whistles are sounding!

Detalle del libro

Autor:	William Miller
Presentación:	96 páginas, 22.5 x 25 cm, tapa blanda
Ilustración:	110 fotos en b/n y 70 a color
Idioma:	Inglés
Editorial:	The History Press Ltd (GB, 2016)
ISBN:	9780750963084

Great Passenger Ships 1930-1940

The 1930s was perhaps the most glamorous and exciting decade for the great liners, highlighted by ferocious international shipbuilding rivalry: Germany's Bremen and Europa, Italy's Rex and Conte Di Savoia, France's Normandie and Britain's Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth.

Passengers travelled on some of the most popular liners of all time, such as L'Atlantique, Empress of Britain, Empress of Japan, Queen of Bermuda, President Coolidge, Strathnaver and Strathaird, Orion, Capetown Castle, Oranje, Mauretania, Andes, and many more.

As this book recounts, despite the worldwide Depression and a great shift in trading patterns, it was a wonderful decade for shipbuilding and the era of art deco on the high seas - the age of 'floating Ginger Rogers'.

Detalle del libro

Autor:	William Miller
Presentación:	96 páginas, 22.5 x 25 cm, tapa blanda
Ilustración:	110 fotos en b/n y 50 a color
Idioma:	Inglés
Editorial:	The History Press Ltd (GB, 2015)
ISBN:	9780750963091

Great Passenger Ships: 1920-1930

Celebrating the majestic passenger liners of the twenties, "Great Passenger Ships 1920-1930" looks at well-loved ships, such as Majestic, Olympic, Berengaria, Viceroy of India and Rawalpindi, alongside lesser known but still fascinating vessels.

The 1920s have become a fabled era for ocean liners, a period of growth and opulence as companies began recovery after the First World War. As the decade went on plans were drawn for great superliners, until the Wall Street Crash changed the world. During the 1920s, the German Imperator became Berengaria for Cunard, Columbus became Homeric for White Star and Bismarck was renamed Majestic for White Star, becoming the line's most popular ship.

Cunard, White Star and P&O had great success while the likes of Orient Line, Union Steamship Company, Union Castle and Furness- Bermuda Line all added their own ships to the mix during these golden days of ocean travel.

Featuring unpublished photographs in a stunning colour section, "Great Passenger Ships 1920-1930" showcases the zenith of ocean travel in the 1920s.
This series follows ships serving all over the world rather than just famed Atlantic liners, with personal anecdotes of the ships and their voyages from passengers and crew alike.

Detalle del libro

Autor:	William H. Miller
Presentación:	96 páginas, 22.5 x 25 x 0.8 cm, tapa blanda
Ilustración:	fotos en b/n y color
Idioma:	Inglés
Editorial:	The History Press Ltd (GB, 2014)
ISBN:	9780752488097

Last of the Blue Water Liners : Passenger Ships Sailing the Seven Seas

This is the story of the last class-divided passenger ships that carried travellers from point to point. In the final years of activity, spanning from the 1940s to the 1960s, they carried Hollywood stars and even royalty on the Atlantic, businessmen to South America and Africa, migrants to Australia and New Zealand, and visitors returning to European homelands.

"Last of the Blue Water Liners" nods to the Atlantic liners but also revels in the many other passenger ships that plied trades around the world: vessels like the Antilles, Oslofjord, Kampala and Changsha.
Complete with rare images and the insight of the prolific maritime historian William H. Miller, this book is a nostalgic parade of a bygone age, a generation of ships all but swept away in the 1960s and 1970s as jet travel changed the world.

Detalle del libro

Autor:	William H. Miller
Presentación:	120 páginas, 22.5 x 25 cm, tapa blanda
Ilustración:	80 fotos en b/n
Idioma:	Inglés
Editorial:	The History Press Ltd (GB, 2018)
ISBN:	9780750984331

Ocean Liners : An Illustrated History

The growth of the ocean liner was driven not only by political and social changes, and developments in marine technology and design but also by increased competition as new companies were established to meet the demands of travellers.
The story starts in the ninetheenth century with the greatest migration ever seen.
Communications around the world were also rapidly improving with the introduction of railways, the opening of the Suez Canal, a universal postal system and, most importantly, the laying of undersea telegraph cables.

Tourism as we know it took off in the 1870s and 1880s. This was also a time of colonial expansion which would see Britain and other countries establishing empires around the world.
To meet the demand, passenger ships became increasingly important with great advances being made not only in ship design but also marine engineering. These technological innovations soon included the introduction not only of the turbine but also diesel engines.
Ocean liners also became statements of national pride and artistic achievements.

The story concludes in the 1960s when, despite increasing numbers of travellers choosing to fly rather than travel by sea, a final flurry of liners were built, many of which had shorter lives than planned. The unique text is supported by over 250 carefully chosen photographs, many of which have never been seen before.
A truly unique and evocative book for merchant ship enthusiasts and historians.

Detalle del libro

Autor:	Peter Newall
Presentación:	192 páginas, 27 x 25 x 2.3 cm, tapa dura
Ilustración:	259 fotos en b/n
Idioma:	Inglés
Editorial:	Seaforth Publishing (GB, 2018)
ISBN:	9781526723161

Post-War on the Liners

From the end of the Second World War through three decades, to the 1970s, traditional port-to-port, class-divided passenger ship business carried on. This meant all kinds of ships - from big liners to small, often rebuilt, ex-coastal steamers.
Accommodations varied from luxurious suites with bedrooms, sitting rooms and marble baths in upper-deck accommodations to Spartan dormitories with as many as 50 berths and communal facilities. But the purpose was all but the same: to go from A to B.

This book examines, through anecdotes & collected experiences, the many passenger ship services of now a bygone era. It is about the diversity and the contrast. There are of course the Atlantic crossings, but also three & four class ships to South America, combination passenger-cargo types carrying only 100 or so travellers, fast mail ships to South Africa, colonial passenger vessels to Mombasa, crowded migrant sailings to Sydney and Auckland, and trans-suez and trans-Pacific passages.
All sorts of ships appear: big Cunarders like the Queen Mary, Italy's Augustus and Britain's Kenya & Uganda, the Oronsay & Southern Cross and even more remote ships such as the Cap Salinas, Tjinegara, Changsha & Hikawa Maru.
It concludes with the closing down, in 1977, of the Union Castle Line's run between Southampton and the South African Cape, the last regular big liner service in the world.

Detalle del libro

Autor:	William H. Miller
Presentación:	128 páginas, 22.5 x 25 cm, tapa blanda
Ilustración:	132 fotos en b/n y color
Idioma:	Inglés
Editorial:	Fonthill Media (GB, 2015)
ISBN:	9781781553596

The Liner - Retrospective and Renaissance

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 with the design and construction of established favorites and lesser-known ships, The Liner explores the human story of the engineers, builders, crew, and passengers. Illustrated throughout with photographs, artworks, and plans, some specially commissioned, this is an essential work for all liner enthusiasts, maritime historians, and anyone who has sailed aboard these fine vessels.

Detalle del libro

Autor:	P. Dawson
Presentación:	256 páginas, 28 x 23.5 x 2.4 cm, tapa dura
Ilustración:	ricamente ilustrado
Idioma:	Inglés
Editorial:	WW Norton & Co (USA, 2007)
ISBN:	9780393061666

Die berühmtesten Schiffe des 20. Jahrhunderts

Who doesn't think of freedom and adventure, Moby Dick and Treasure Island, Titanic and Pirates of the Caribbean when they think of ships?
Ships have always been important means of transport. They enabled the discovery of foreign continents and the transfer of culture and goods between peoples. This close relationship between man and ship led to impressive achievements in shipbuilding.

Páginas del libro "Die berühmtesten Schiffe des 20. Jahrhunderts"

This volume by Hans Karr brings together the most famous ships of the 20th century and describes their technical features. Anecdotes from the often "spectacular" histories of the ships round off the portraits in an entertaining way.

Detalle del libro

Autor:	Hans Karr
Presentación:	192 páginas, 24 x 30.5 cm, tapa dura
Ilustración:	130 fotos en b/n y color
Idioma:	Alemán
Editorial:	Pietsch Verlag (D, 2018)
ISBN:	9783613508712

Kreuzfahrtschiffe - auf Weltmeeren und Flüssen (Typenkompass)

Whether on the world's seas or on rivers around the globe: cruise ships exert an irresistible fascination on people. Ever larger and more luxurious ships vie for the favor of customers.
Horst W. Laumanns offers an entertaining overview of large sailing ships and luxury liners, mega ships and passenger ferries, provides interesting technical data and presents each ship in text and images.

Páginas del libro "Kreuzfahrtschiffe - auf Weltmeeren und Flüssen"

Detalle del libro

Autor:	Horst W. Laumanns
Presentación:	128 páginas, 20.5 x 14 cm, tapa blanda
Ilustración:	145 fotos y color
Idioma:	Alemán
Editorial:	Pietsch Verlag (D, 2012)
Colección:	Typenkompass
ISBN:	9783613507050

Nordatlantikrenner - Legendäre Schnelldampfer im Wettlauf ums Blaue Band

The Blue Riband was a symbolic trophy for the fastest North Atlantic crossing by a passenger ship. Ever faster, larger and more luxurious passenger ships sailed from continent to continent with a wealthy public. Some of the fast steamers and luxury ships that took part achieved legendary fame.

This book deals with them: It brings together the most famous fast steamers from 1888-1951. Each ship is portrayed in an entertaining way based on its special features and anecdotes from its "history" as well as numerous illustrations and the most important technical innovations.

Detalle del libro

Autor:	Hans Karr
Presentación:	224 páginas, 24 x 30.5 cm, tapa dura
Ilustración:	300 fotos en b/n y color
Idioma:	Alemán
Editorial:	Pietsch Verlag (D, 2020)
ISBN:	9783613509115