Navi passeggeri: libri illustrati - storia e compagnie di navigazione (3/3)

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.

Dettagli del libro

Autore:	William H. Miller
Formato:	117 pagine, 22.5 x 24.5 x 1.3 cm, copertina rigida
Illustrazioni:	150 foto in colori
Lingua:	inglese
Editore:	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.

Dettagli del libro

Autore:	Christopher Deakes
Formato:	160 pagine, 24 x 29.5 x 1.2 cm, brossura
Illustrazioni:	più di 500 illustrazioni in colori
Lingua:	inglese
Editore:	Seaforth Publishing (GB, 2012)
ISBN:	9781848321519

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.

Dettagli del libro

Autore:	William H. Miller
Formato:	120 pagine, 22.5 x 25 cm, brossura
Illustrazioni:	80 foto in B&N
Lingua:	inglese
Editore:	The History Press Ltd (GB, 2018)
ISBN:	9780750984331

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.

Pagine del libro "Kreuzfahrtschiffe - auf Weltmeeren und Flüssen"

Dettagli del libro

Autore:	Horst W. Laumanns
Formato:	128 pagine, 20.5 x 14 cm, brossura
Illustrazioni:	145 foto in colori
Lingua:	tedesco
Editore:	Pietsch Verlag (D, 2012)
Collana:	Typenkompass
ISBN:	9783613507050