About the Author

Peter Newall is recognised as one of the world's leading passenger shipping experts. After a successful career at British Airways he is now a full time cruise journalist, lecturer and shipping historian. He has written hundreds of articles and nine highly acclaimed maritime history books including the definitive fleet histories of Cunard, Orient and Union-Castle Lines. His extensive collection of historic merchant shipping images, now known as the Newall Dunn Collection, is one of the largest in private hands.

Reviews

Lushly illustrated with more than 250 photographs, this book by shipping expert and historian Newall describes ocean liners and their routes and interweaves the technical and design developments that powered the world's principal means of transport before the jet age.--Publisher's Weekly