Ocean liners
Newall, Peter2018
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Before 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 travellers to every corner of the world. Though the ocean liner was born on the North Atlantic it soon spread to all the other oceans and in this new book the author addresses this huge global story. The account begins with Brunel's Great Eastern and the early Cunarders, but with the rise in nationalism and the growth in empires in the latter part of the 19th century, and the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, the colonial powers of Spain, France and Germany soon established shipping lines of their own, and transpacific routes were opened up by Japanese and American lines.
Main title:
Ocean liners / Peter Newall.
Author:
Newall, Peter, author
Imprint:
Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Seaforth Publishing, 2018.
Collation:
192 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
ISBN:
9781526723161 (hbk. :)
Language:
English
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BRN:
262153
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