"The Liner Retrospective & Renaissance" Softcover book: 2007 2nd edition.

Very comprehensive, well researched book charting passenger liners from 1830s to the present day. Includes unusual and elegant photos - exterior & interior. Beautifully reproduced. Some profile drawings. An appendix of ship profiles giving specifications, design and history plus a further appendix of significant shipping timelines.

The book gives extensive descriptions of the important advances in 20th C. passenger ship design; example: five pages coverage of 1935 Orient Line: Orion. Also, Oriana and Canberra etc. in the 1960s.

• softcover, 256 pages, 22cm x 27.5cm, 2007 edition.
• author: Philip Dawson
• Conway publishers
• ISBN 13: 9781844860494
• 8 chapters, appendices A (ship profiles, see below) & B (shipping timelines).

SHIP PROFILES Incl: Alexandr Pushkin (1965), Aquitania (1914), Bremen & Europa (1930), Britannia (1840), Canberra (1961), City of Glasgow (1850), France (1962), Great Britain (1843), Great Eastern (1958), Hindostan (1842), Ile de France (1927), Imperator (1913), Kungsholm (1928), Kungsholm (1966), L'Atlantique (1931), Liverpool (1838), Lusitania & Mauretania (1907), Michelangelo & Raffaello (1965), Normandie (1935), Olympic (1911), Oriana (1960), Orion (1935), Persia (1856), Queen Elizabeth (1940), Queen Elizabeth 2 (1969), Queen Mary (1936), Queen Mary 2 (2003), Rex & Conte di Savoia (1932), Rotterdam (1959), St Laurent, Titanic (1912), Transvaal Castle (1962), Umbria & Etruria (1884-5), United States (1952), Victoria (1931).

Exc. condition - as new.