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“nils schwerdtner”

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  • German Luxury Ocean Liners

    From Kaiser Wilhelm Der Grosse to Aidastella

    by Nils Schwerdtner ...
    From the 1890s, the German shipping lines had begun to build the fastest and most luxurious liners. It had started when Kaiser Wilhelm had visited Spithead and been transported on White Star Line's Teutonic and had mentioned that Germany must have ships like this. The first four stacker, the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, had been named in his honour and the ships that followed were faster and more ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • The New Cunard Queens

    Queen Mary 2, Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth

    by Nils Schwerdtner ...
    The venerable Queen Elizabeth 2 has long since become a floating legend. Launched in 1967, she was for three decades considered the last of her kind, a cherished and beloved remnant from the age of the great ocean liners. So Cunard’s decision, on the eve of the new Millennium, to build a new liner for the transatlantic service, caused widespread interest. The Queen Mary 2 would not have been a ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Cunard The Golden Years in Colour

    by William H. Miller, Anton Logvinenko ...
    The Golden Age of liner travel was from the early 1900s to the 1950s, a period dominated by black-and-white photography, with few colour views. William H. Miller and Anton Logvinenko show off colour views of the magnificent ships, from the Mauretania and Lusitania to the Queen Mary, as well as the A Class liners of the 1920s and the sublime Deco Mauretania (2) of 1939. Experience the glamour of ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • British Canals

    The Standard History

    by Joseph Boughey, Charles Hadfield ...
    The first edition of British Canals was published in 1950 and was much admired as a pioneering work in transport history. Joseph Boughey, with the advice of Charles Hadfield, has previously revised and updated the perennially popular material to reflect more recent changes. For this ninth edition, Joseph Boughey discusses the many new discoveries and advances in the world of canals around Britain, ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Southampton - Maritime City from Ocean Liners to Cruise Ships.

    by Mike Roussel ...
    This book charts the development of the ocean liner from the 19th century to the present day. It explores the golden years of transatlantic shipping and the competition from the jet passenger aircraft. The book looks at the history and development of the early ocean-going steamships, and the competition between shipping companies by the end of the 19th century to build liners that were extreme in ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD

  • High Tea on the Cunard Queens

    A Light-hearted Look at Life at Sea

    by Paul Curtis ...
    This amusing insight into Cunard's legendary liners begins more than fifty years ago when Paul Curtis joined the original Queen Mary as entertainments officer. Over a Cunard high tea in the Queens Room, Paul recounts the stories of these iconic ships. Then, over a drink in the Red Lion, he shares the tales of the antics of both passengers and crews. The facts are delivered in vivid detail – some ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Whitby Through Time

    by Robin Cook ...
    Series series Through Time
    Famous for its attractive scenery, abbey, trademark jet jewellery and Dracula, it could be argued that Whitby needs little introduction. But as this volume sets out to show, there is far more to Whitby. The Abbey, of course, is the best-known and loved building here, but perhaps fewer people know of the important role it played in shaping the development of the church in England. And while the jet ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Liverpool Docks Through Time

    by Ian Collard ...
    Series series Through Time
    The Port of Liverpool handles more container trade with the United States than any other port in the UK and now also serves more than 100 other non-EU destinations, from China to Africa and the Middle East, and from Australia to South America. Liverpool has been an important port since the seventeenth century, when the city began to import West Indian sugar and Virginian tobacco, exporting ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Canal 250

    The Story of Britain's Canals

    by Anthony Burton ...
    When a young English nobleman was thwarted in love he abandoned the court, retired to his estate near Manchester and built a canal to serve his coalmines. The Bridgewater Canal was the sensation of the age and led others to follow the example of the enterprising Duke of Bridgewater. From his starting point in 1760, over the next half-century Britain was covered by a network of waterways that ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Britain's Working Coast in Victorian and Edwardian Times

    by John Hannavy ...
    Series Book 548 - Shire Library
    The coastline of Victorian and Edwardian Britain provided beauty, entertainment and the venue for most people's holidays.But it was also a thriving centre of industry shipbuilding and fishing, plus the numerous trades associated with dockyards, coastal transport and the leisure industry. This book travels around Britain's coast clockwise from London looking at the industries that could be found at ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Tramp Ships

    An Illustrated History

    by Roy Fenton ...
    With 300 stunning photographs, this pictorial history of tramp trade ships illustrates the evolution of these charming, itinerant merchant vessels.The tramp ship was the taxi of the seas. With no regular schedules, it voyaged anywhere and everywhere, picking up and dropping off cargoes, mainly bulk cargoes such as coal, grain, timber, china clay and oil. Older and slower vessels tended to find ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ocean Liners

    An Illustrated History

    by Peter Newall ...
    "A truly comprehensive publication, running the gamut from the first Atlantic sail-enhanced steamers to today's remaining handful of combi-liners." — Maritime MattersBefore 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. ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus