Author: Frank E. Dodman With A Foreword By A C Hardy
Genre: Sports, Hobbies & Games
Publisher: Frederick Warne & Co Ltd

Author: DODMAN, FRANK E.

Author: DODMAN, FRANK E.

Author: DODMAN, FRANK E.

Author: Dodman Frank
Genre: Reference
Publisher: Warne / Penguin Books

This pocket guide contains information on numerous types of ships - merchant ships, car feries, cruise ships, fishing vessels, warships and sailing ships.

Author: A Doedens
Genre: Antiquarian, Rare & Collectable
Publisher: Bosch & Keuning

Ocean giants. A century of Dutch passenger shipping
In word and image an overview is given of the history of Dutch passenger shipping. In addition, the personal experiences of passengers and crew members receive a lot of attention.

Author: David Baboulene
Genre: Biography
Publisher: Summersdale

David Baboulene runs away to sea in a cloud of romantic dust for the first of his globetrotting adventures. His journey takes him across the world and back, from New Orleans and Houston in America to the Caribbean islands of Barbados and Jamaica, through the Panama Canal to Sydney and Melbourne in Australia, then back across the Pacific – through the Gilbert and Solomon islands, Samoa, Tonga, Fiji and the Azores – to a triumphant homecoming in Liverpool. But despite the laughs, the real journey in this strangely moving tale takes him all the way… from a boy to a man.

Author: David Carey Jr.
Genre: Religion
Publisher: Ladybird

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Author: Jr. William H. Miller
Genre: Subjects
Publisher: Carmania Press

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Author: Theodore W. Scull
Genre: Reference
Publisher: Overview Press Limited

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Author: Daniel Finamore, Ghislaine Wood
Genre: Arts & Photography
Publisher: V&A

Edition published to accompany the V&A’s exhibition ‘Ocean Liners: Speed and Style'

The great age of ocean travel has long since passed, but ocean liners remain one of the most powerful and admired symbols of modernity. No form of transport was as romantic, remarkable, or contested, and ocean liner design became a matter of national prestige as well as an arena in which the larger dynamics of global competition were played out.

This beautifully illustrated book considers over a century of liner design: from the striking graphics created to promote liners to the triumphs of engineering, and from luxurious interiors to on board fashion and activities. Ocean Liners explores the design of Victorian and Art Deco ‘ floating palaces’, sleek post-war liners as well as these ships’ impact on avant-garde artists and architects such as Le Corbusier.

Author: David Williams and Jonathan Forty
Genre: Reference
Publisher: PRC Publishing

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Author: WALL, ROBERT
Genre: Ocean liners
Publisher: Patrick Stephens

Author: WALL, ROBERT
Genre: Ocean liners
Publisher: Patrick Stephens

Author: Robert Wall
Genre: Subjects
Publisher: HarperCollins Distribution Services

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Author: Robert Wall
Genre: Antiquarian, Rare & Collectable
Publisher: William Collins Sons and Co Ltd

Illustrated with 400 colour & b/w photographs and drawings. The story of the rise and fall of the ocean liner, and its final capitulation to the airliners. Owing to the weight, extra shipping may be requied.

Genre: Reference
Publisher: Tushita Verlags GmbH

Marion bought these 2 copies for me.

stil in film wrap, it is a 2013 Calendar featuring 12 vintage ocean liner advertisements.

Author: MILLER, WILLIAM H.

Author: NEWELL, GORDON
Genre: Ocean liners
Publisher: Stephens

ill. (some col.) ;
Illustrations on endpapers
Includes bibliography and index

Author: THE SHIPBUILDER

Author: THE SHIPBUILDER

Author: THE SHIPBUILDER

Author: THE SHIPBUILDER

Author: THE SHIPBUILDER

Author: THE SHIPBUILDER

Author: The Shipbuilder, Marine Engine-Builder
Genre: Antiquarian, Rare & Collectable
Publisher: New York Graphic Society

34 x 26cm - No. 6 in a series of reprints from 'The Shipbuilder & Marine Engine Builder' featuring the Queen Mary. Includes several fold-out drawings.    Scanned image cropped due to size of item

Author: Leslie Reade (introduction)
Genre: Subjects
Publisher: Patrick Stephens Ltd

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Author: William H. Miller Jr.
Genre: Antiquarian, Rare & Collectable
Publisher: Quadrant Press

Ocean liners, grouped by company

Author: Peter Newall
Genre: History
Publisher: Seaforth Publishing

The growth of the ocean liner was driven not only by political and social changes, and developments in marine technology and design but also by increased competition as new companies were established to meet the demands of travellers. Most liner books tend to be focussed on the transatlantic routes whereas the main aim of this book is to tell the story of the whole global development of the ocean liner. The means that not only are the well-known vessels featured but also many lesser known routes and ships. The story starts in the ninetheenth century with the greatest migration ever seen. Communications around the world were also rapidly improving with the introduction of railways, the opening of the Suez Canal, a universal postal system and, most importantly, the laying of undersea telegraph cables. Tourism as we know it took off in the 1870s and 1880s. This was also a time of colonial expansion which would see Britain and other countries establishing empires around the world. To meet the demand, passenger ships became increasingly important with great advances being made not only in ship design but also marine engineering. These technological innovations soon included the introduction not only of the turbine but also diesel engines. Ocean liners also became statements of national pride and artistic achievements. The story concludes in the 1960s when, despite increasing numbers of travellers choosing to fly rather than travel by sea, a final flurry of liners were built, many of which had shorter lives than planned. The unique text is supported by over 250 carefully chosen photographs, many of which have never been seen before. A truly unique and evocative book for merchant ship enthusiasts and historians.

Author: GREENMAN, D. (MARINART LTD.)

Author: HUNTER-COX, JANE

Author: Jane Hunter-Cox
Genre: Art, Architecture & Photography
Publisher: Michael Joseph

Exeter published Sea & Sailing

Author: B. Moody
Genre: Subjects
Publisher: Ian Allan Ltd

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Author: MOODY, BERT

Author: MOODY, BERT

Author: B. Moody
Genre: Reference
Publisher: Ian Allan Ltd

Fleet Lists of British & Foreign Liners, Freighters & Tankers. Index.
Checklist of the world's ocean-going ships as of date of publication.

Author: COOPER-HEWITT MUSEUM

Author: J. A.. Lauwerys, R. W. Moore, Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald
Genre: Antiquarian, Rare & Collectable
Publisher: Odhams Press Ltd.

Vintage childrens book with over 2500 pictures.
Review by Amazon Reader: Ellen
5.0 out of 5 stars
Fond Memories! Just received a copy of this encyclopaedia for my Christmas 2015 from my son Iain. !Excited!
9 November 2014
Format: Hardcover
This book was influential in my early years. I used to read it every night in bed,especially the science topics!.
Needless to say I am a retired Science teacher and I owe it all to this Christmas present bought for me by my uncle Edward.
Fond memories!

Author: SMALLPEICE, SIR BASIL

Author: Sir Basil Smallpeice
Genre: Antiquarian, Rare & Collectable
Publisher: Airlife Publishing

Sir Basil Was Appointed To Administrative Advisor In Buckingham Palace In 1964-an Assignment Which Must Rank As The Ultimate Professioinal Accounting Accolade And Character Reference.

Author: A Sparks
Genre: Subjects
Publisher: Book Guild

The Book Guild Ltd, 1992. This book is the autobiographical account of a 30 month homeward-bound vouage made by the author - with some parts fictionalised - sent to Australia at the outbreak of the WW11 he was almost immediately orphaned and - although underage - decided to make his way back to England, becoming a seasoned mariner in the process. Book is in very clean condition as is the dj in protective dust jacket . Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Author: Michael Pearson
Genre: History
Publisher: Pen & Sword Maritime

Ohio & Malta

Author: Miles Cowsill, John Hendy
Genre: Reference
Publisher: Ferry Publications

Presents the story of the German-operated Sheerness-Vlissingen service, depicting the building and entry into service of two of the luxurious ferries to operate to the Continent.

Author: The Landmark Trust (Model Designed By M. Pickwoad
Publisher: The Landmark Trust

4 pages of pieces ready to cut out and glue

Author: Raymond Flower
Genre: History
Publisher: Croom Helm Ltd

Strong on the town's social life.

Author: David Kaye
Genre: Home & Garden
Publisher: Shire Publications

Interest in the old trolleybuses increased when it became obvious in the early 1960s that there days were numbered. Hundreds of hours of loving care have been spent on restoring those which have survived. Some may be admired in static exhibitions but others can be enjoyed in areas of Suffolk and Humberside. The booklet traces their history since the first experiments in this mode of electric transport were carried out over one hundred years ago.

Author: Carol Drinkwater
Genre: Textbooks
Publisher: Orion Pub Co

'The stars shimmer like spilled handfuls of glitter. The day is beginning to rise with a faint mist. As I turn my head, ghostly halos, auras of light, appear and disappear and I cannot tell if it is caused by my lightheadedness or is a freak of nature. The silence is truly awesome. Not a bird, not a whisper of wind, not a breath of life. Only the two of us, a most implausible pair, standing shoulder to shoulder gazing upon an awakening heaven'. Carol Drinkwater has already built up a large readership eagerly awaiting the third volume of her Olive Farm memoirs. Returning to their home after an extended absence Carol and her husband Michel are looking forward to summer together on the farm. A shocking blow leaves Carol alone. The future is uncertain. The Olive Harvest takes us beyond the perimeters of her olive groves to where hunters, poets, bee-keepers, boars and gypsies abide. In search of the language of troubadours, the dark and sometimes barbarous heart of Provence is revealed. Nature and the generosity of the South of France's harvests offer a path to joy and an abundant resolution. The magnificent humanity and honesty that characterised the first two episodes of her trilogy sets Carol Drinkwater's work apart from others in the same genre. The Olive Harvest and its vibrant Mediterranean world will enthral her many readers.

Author: Carol Drinkwater
Genre: Textbooks
Publisher: Time Warner Books Uk

Spine creased, page edges tanned. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.

Author: Bruce Beveridge, Steve Hall
Genre: Society, Politics & Philosophy
Publisher: Infinity Publishing.com

No Olympic & Titanic Read a customer review or write one .

Author: Mark Chirnside
Genre: Reference
Publisher: The History Press

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Author: Mark Chirnside
Genre: History
Publisher: The History Press

Olympic, Titanic, Britannic: An Illustrated History of the Olympic Class Ships

Author: Craig O. Thompson
Genre: Crime, Thrillers & Mystery
Publisher: Stratagem Press / Brightwater Publishing Company

In 1995, the CIA and FBI jointly discovered secret plans to recover a trove of priceless treasure from deep below the North Atlantic Ice Barrier, aboard the RMS Titanic. An ultra-zealous terrorist organization competed against a group of divers, hired by a billionaire oilman, which set off a complex web of international intrigue and suspense. Dr. Cary Parker, Woods Hole oceanographer, archaeologist, and maritime law specialist at the Smithsonian Institute, was recruited by CIA's Colonel Bramson to beat both diving teams to the ship's grave site. And a wave of worldwide terrorism was set into motion at 2077 fathoms, as a rare, priceless book and unrecovered treasure became the primary focus of a triadic search. Parker, challenged the terrorists on his own turf, and what followed was an adventure of legendary proportions.

Author: Tad Fitch, J. Kent Layton, Bill Wormstedt
Genre: History
Publisher: Amberley Publishing

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Author: George Behe
Genre: Biography
Publisher: The History Press

This is the very first book in which Titanic’s passengers and crewmen are permitted to tell the story of the disaster entirely in their own words via the texts of letters, postcards, diary entries and memoirs that were written before, during and immediately after the maiden voyage itself. Many of the pre-sailing documents were written by people who later lost their lives in the sinking and represent the last communications that these people ever had with their friends and loved ones at home. These letters and postcards give an unparalleled description of the events that occurred during the five days that Titanic was at sea, and the communications that were written by survivors after the sinking describe the horror of the disaster itself and the heartbreak they experienced at the loss of their loved ones. This moving book, by Titanic expert George Behe, also contains brief biographies of the passengers ̶ victims as well as survivors ̶ who wrote the documents in question.

Author: Paul Atterbury
Genre: Travel & Holiday
Publisher: Automobile Association

At the seaside, messing about in boats or rambling between Youth Hostels ... Paul Atterbury's book brings together hundreds of family photographs, advertisements, postcards and ephemera to show the British on holiday between the Edwardian era and the 1960s. As well as depicting aspects of the holiday experience from souvenirs and ice cream to chalet bungalows and charabancs, the images evoke some of the most popular places in their heyday, among them Blackpool, Llandudno, the Derbyshire Dales and St Ives.

Author: Mervyn Horder
Genre: Subjects
Publisher: Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd.

True stories of 16 shipwrecks and their aftermaths from 62 AD to 1942 including cannibalism, bw illustrations

Sixteen true life stories of historic shipwrecks and the incredible survival stories of those thrown to the mercy of the sea or on to barren shores. The book includes four stories from the Second World War taken from Royal naval archives and made public here for the first time.

Author: Tom Barbash
Genre: Biography
Publisher: Headline Book Publishing

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Author: J.Randy Taraborelli
Genre: Biographies
Publisher: Pan MacMillan

Grace Kelly was swept away when the handsome Prince Rainier, a man she barely knew, asked for her hand in marriage. After a series of relationships with married co-stars she was exhausted by the showbusiness lifestyle. If she married Rainier she would be more than just a movie star, she would be Her Serene Highness Princess Grace. Trapped in a fairytale of her own making, Grace was forced to make sacrifices that cut deeply into the core of who she was as a woman, surrendering her desires and ambitions for her spouse and her children. Grace and Rainier may have been royalty but they were also husband and wife, and parents - and, as such, just as vulnerable to the conflicts that can contaminate any household.Drawing upon hundreds of exclusive interviews with family and friends, Once Upon a Time portrays its subjects with passion and sympathy, revealing Grace, Rainier, Caroline, Albert and Stephanie in ways both startling and compelling.

Author: Harry Grey
Genre: Crime, Thrillers & Mystery
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

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Author: Adrian Martin
Genre: Art, Architecture & Photography
Publisher: BFI Publishing

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Author: Jim McLoughlin, David Gibb
Genre: History
Publisher: National Maritime Museum

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Author: Barry Cuttell
Genre: History
Publisher: GMS Enterprises

Very good condition spiral-bound board book with minimal wear. Contents are clean and bright throughout with no markings.

Author: Pen Farthing
Genre: Biography
Publisher: Ebury Press

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Author: Admiral Sandy Woodward
Genre: Biography
Publisher: HarperCollins

Fine, A fine copy in black cloth boards with a fine dust jacket in a clear protective wrapper.

Author: John Edward
Genre: Mind, Body & Spirit
Publisher: Piatkus

In this volume, John Edwards talks about how he first discovered and developed his ability to foretell events and communicate with those who have passed on. He shows readers how to tune in to the psychic abilities they possess, and to read and understand the subtle signs of spiritual contact.

Author: Life
Genre: Art, Architecture & Photography
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company

ONE NATION is a brilliantly illustrated portrait of the tragic and triumphant events of September 11, 2001. It contains:
* A brief, visual history of the building of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon
* A minute-by-minute illustrated account of the attacks
* The frantic evacuation of lower Manhattan and the subsequent rescue attempts
* The heroic efforts of firemen, police officers, EMTs, search dogs, volunteers and everyday New Yorkers
* The leadership response from President George W. Bush and New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Guiliano
*The candlelight vigils, prayer services, flag displays and patriotism in New York and around the world
* And the victims, including sketches of some of those lost, who encompass many faiths, colours and nationalities
ONE NATION also features original essays by bestselling authors such as Maya Angelou.

Author: Edward Young
Genre: History
Publisher: Grafton

Edward Young was an amateur yachtsman at the outbreak of World War II, and soon found himself, with many other well-bred volunteers, in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve. A skilled writer, his narrative remains one of the best accounts of submarine warfare.

Author: COWSILL, MILES
Publisher: Ferry Publications

1st Ed. Foreword by Ian A. Carruthers. 36 PP with 2 maps, 19 colour, and 61 bw photos. Inside front cover: Prince of Brittany. Inside back cover: the Prince of Brittany passes the Channel Island ferry Corbiere. Pictorial soft cover.

Author: Garrett M. Graff
Publisher: Monoray

Of all the books about 9/11 one has been missing until now - a panoramic narrative from the men and women caught up in the unprecedented human drama of that terrible day.

The Only Plane in the Sky is nothing less than the first comprehensive oral history of 9/11, deftly woven and told in the voices of ordinary people grappling with extraordinary events. Drawing on never-before-published transcripts, recently declassified documents, new and archived interviews from nearly five hundred people, historian Garrett Graff skillfully tells the story of the day as it was lived.

It begins in the predawn hours of airports in the Northeast, where we meet the ticket agents who unknowingly usher terrorists onto their flights. In New York, first responders confront a scene of unimaginable chaos at the Twin Towers. From a secret bunker beneath the White House, Dick Cheney and Condoleezza Rice watch for incoming planes on radar. In the offices of the Pentagon, top officials feel the violent tremor as their headquarters come under attack.

We hear the stories of the father and son working on separate floors in the North Tower; the firefighter who rushes to the scene to search for his wife; the telephone operator who keeps her promise to share a passenger's last words with his family; the chaplain who stays on the scene to perform last rites, losing his own life when the Towers collapse; the teachers evacuating terrified children from schools mere blocks from the World Trade Center; the generals at the Pentagon who break down and weep when they are barred from rushing into the burning building to try and rescue their colleagues.

The Only Plane in the Skyis a unique, profound, and searing exploration of humanity on a day that changed the course of history, and all of our lives.

Author: MAXTONE-GRAHAM, JOHN

Author: John Maxtone-Graham
Genre: Travel & Holiday
Publisher: Barnes & Noble

This painstakingly researched volume chronicles the age of luxury transatlantic travel and the splendid, glittering steamships that thundered across the world's most dangerous ocean ferrying the world's wealthiest and most prominent passengers, from Mary Pickford and Sally Rand to Edward, Prince of Wales, between the U.S. and Europe during the first half of the century.

The book profiles the opulent lifestyles aboard such floating palaces as Normandie, Rex, Olympic, Amerika, Queen Mary, France, Mauritania, Queen Elizabeth II, Imperator, and Titanic. "Perhaps the most readable book on the subject ever to have appeared" --Country Life. Black-and-white photographs.

From the Publisher
Since writing The Only Way to Cross in 1972, John Maxtone-Graham has become one of the world's foremost maritime historians. This most recent reprint of The Only Way to Cross continues to transport readers back to the bygone maritime era, when dozens of express liners steamed in and out of New York and sailed across the North Atlantic, accommodating the rich on lavish upper decks and hordes of immigrants deep within their holds.

From discussing the vessels' engineering and architectural marvels to narrating the frightful stories of having to face perilous storms and fogs, Maxtone-Graham successfully documents the rich history these liners conjured up during their exciting journeys from port to port.

Author: Spike Mays
Genre: Biography
Publisher: Abacus

This classic memoir, originally published in 1969 as Reuben's Way, brings into sharp focus how much life in East Anglia has changed since the author's childhood in the 1920s. Brought up in a cottage with no electricity or running water, Spike Mays describes a life of rural poverty enlivened by the colourful characters of his village - among them the poacher, the parson and the local drunk.

Author: ONSLOW'S AUCTIONEERS

Author: Onslow's Auctions Limited
Genre: Catalogue
Publisher: Onslow's Auctions Limited

Cover has gloss Titanic postcard copy tipped in. Slip with ‘additional lots’ added to first page. Unmarked “Prices Realised” form at back. Mint condition

Author: William B. Breuer
Genre: Subjects
Publisher: Airlife Publishing

VG condition book with dust jacket. DJ is clean, has fresh colours and has little wear to edges. Book has clean and bright contents.

Author: Joshua Levine
Genre: History
Publisher: Collins

Operation Fortitude Operation Fortitude was the ingenious web of deception spun by the Allies to mislead the Nazis as to how and where the D-Day landings were to be mounted. Full description

Author: Ben Macintyre
Genre: History
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

One April morning in 1943, a sardine fisherman spotted the corpse of a British soldier floating in the sea off the coast of Spain and set in train a course of events that would change the course of the Second World War. Operation Mincemeat was the most successful wartime deception ever attempted, and certainly the strangest. It hoodwinked the Nazi espionage chiefs, sent German troops hurtling in the wrong direction, and saved thousands of lives by deploying a secret agent who was different, in one crucial respect, from any spy before or since: he was dead. His mission: to convince the Germans that instead of attacking Sicily, the Allied armies planned to invade Greece. The brainchild of an eccentric RAF officer and a brilliant Jewish barrister, the great hoax involved an extraordinary cast of characters including a famous forensic pathologist, a gold-prospector, an inventor, a beautiful secret service secretary, a submarine captain, three novelists, a transvestite English spymaster, an irascible admiral who loved fly-fishing, and a dead Welsh tramp. Using fraud, imagination and seduction, Churchill's team of spies spun a web of deceit so elaborate and so convincing that they began to believe it themselves. The deception started in a windowless basement beneath Whitehall. It travelled from London to Scotland to Spain to Germany. And it ended up on Hitler's desk. Ben Macintyre, bestselling author of "Agent Zigzag", weaves together private documents, photographs, memories, letters and diaries, as well as newly released material from the intelligence files of MI5 and Naval Intelligence, to tell for the first time the full story of Operation Mincemeat.

Author: Pat Molloy
Genre: Society, Politics & Philosophy
Publisher: Gomer Press

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Author: Paddy Kelly
Genre: Crime, Thrillers & Mystery
Publisher: Legend Press

Based around the loss of "SS Normandie"

Author: Philip Beck
Genre: History
Publisher: Leo Cooper Ltd

Oradour The destruction of the French village of Oradour and the massacre of its population in June 1944 by the SS Das Reich Division ranks as one of the most notorious atrocities of the Second World War. The scars that were left will never fully heal and there are those that would argue that they should remain as a lesson to future. Full description

Author: Ian Inskip
Genre: History
Publisher: Frontline Books

The story of HMS Glamorgan's role in the Falklands Conflict.

Author: David, Charles Publishing
Genre: Travel & Holiday
Publisher: David & Charles

This series offers reprints of the first edition of the one-inch Ordnance Survey maps of England and Wales, dating from 1805 to 1900. Detail includes villages, hamlets, farms, county boundaries, roads and railways.

Author: Sharon Poole, Andrew Sassoli-Walker
Genre: History
Publisher: Amberley Publishing

In 1995, P&O introduced the 70,000grt Oriana into service. She was to be the replacement for the long-lived Canberra and she ushered in a new period in British cruising history. Popular from her first days of service, she has become the epitome of P&O style, offering luxurious accommodation and public rooms. Five years later, her half-sister, Aurora, externally similar but internally much different, was introduced. Together, the two ships took P&O into the twenty-first century with a modern fleet of luxury liners. Oriana holds the Golden Cockeral for the fastest ship in the fleet, while Aurora offers an intimacy not seen on the larger and newer P&O vessels. 2012 sees the 175th anniversary of P&O and celebrations planned this year include the sailing of all seven P&O cruise ships from Southampton in mid-July. It is expected that tens of thousands will visit the city to see the biggest sail off in Southampton's history.

Author: Charles F. Morris
Genre: Antiquarian, Rare & Collectable
Publisher: Teredo Books

"Not only does this volume embrace the development of ships to the stage of the ocean liner, but the entire history of his own Orient Company, whose fleet were always considered to maintain the highest standards in the Australian trade, together with the story of the remarkable family who operated it and their fascinating financial fortunes, whilst it deals also with their sailing ships which preceded and, for some time, ran parallel with the steamers." Illustrated with 211 plates, 9 in color. 491 pages with index.

Author: Nelson French
Genre: Biography
Publisher: Navigator Books

Nelson French joined the Orient Line as an Assistant Purser when he was released from the Army in 1947. He was appointed Purser in 1954 and thereafter served in every ship of the Orient fleet. He was involved in the commissioning and the Maiden Voyage of the last great Orient Liner, ORIANA. On leaving the sea, Nelson French became a Bursar at St. Catherine's College, Oxford. He retired in 1981 and now lives in Oxfordshire.

Author: Wolf Von Eckardt, etc.
Genre: Biography
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books Ltd

This volume provides a portrait of the city in which Oscar Wilde became famous and which he celebrated in so many of his plays and books. The text is illustrated with photographs and drawings giving an authoritative account of a writer in the London he loved.

Author: Michael Bergin
Genre: Biography
Publisher: HarperCollins

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Author: Simon Martin
Genre: Reference
Publisher: David & Charles

The story of a most unlikely diving expedition in one of the most bleakest spots in the British Isles. A short trip for a special fun dive became a major project over a six year period.

Author: MARTIN, SIMON

Author: Donald Spoto
Genre: Biography
Publisher: Arrow

Otherwise Engaged The play, "Look Back in Anger" changed Alan Bates' life. He also worked in television and won international acclaim for his roles in a number of major films, from "A Kind of Loving" to "Zorba the Greek". But his personal life was turbulent. This work chronicles Alan's achievements as a performer against the backdrop of a complicated personal life. Full description

Author: Geoffrey Underwood
Genre: History
Publisher: Maritime Books

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Author: HOWARD, SIDNEY
Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author: Sidney Howard
Genre: Antiquarian, Rare & Collectable
Publisher: Oxford University Press

No DJ, 104pp illus

Author: Charles Dickens
Genre: Literature & Fiction (Books)
Publisher: Penguin UK

A satire on wealth and its corrupting power, symbolized by the inheritance of a dust-heap and represented by the changing fortunes of Boffin, the golden dustman, and by the portrayal of the upstart Veneerings and their circle.

Author: Odhams Press
Genre: Subjects
Publisher: Odhams Press Limited

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Author: Algot Mattsson, Gordon Paulsen, Bruce Paulsen
Genre: History
Publisher: Cornell Maritime Press

Two very different ships collided off Nantucket, Massachusetts, on the night of July 25-26, 1956. Andrea Doria, the Italian liner, was one of the most luxurious vessels built during the immediate postwar period and represented the belief that people would continue to use ships to travel between the continents. When she docked in New York on her maiden voyage in 1953, one ship designer wrote: She is the most beautiful example of modern naval architecture I have ever seen. The Swedish Stockholm was a transitional ship, a cross between a freighter and a passenger vessel, intended to serve the Swedish America Line while the airlines gradually took over the passenger traffic across the North Atlantic.The collision between these two disparate vessels, which resulted in the loss of fifty-one lives and the handsome Andrea Doria, has been a subject of controversy for more than forty-five years. This translation of Algot Mattsson's Swedish book is likely to revive that debate.Gordon Paulsen was a member of the firm of maritime lawyers who represented Stockholm's owners in the legal actions that followed the collision and sinking. When the preliminary hearings opened on September 19, 1956, the question waiting to be answered was how a collision could occur on the open sea between two vessels equipped with all modern technical gear. When the hearings were terminated on January 24, 1957, the question remained unanswered. The shipping companies involved settled out of court, and the result of an actual trial can only be speculation.When he first discovered Algot Mattsson's work in the midnineties, Paulsen felt it deserved to be available for English-speaking readers, and he commissioned atranslation. He has edited the work for an American audience and appended a legal opinion about the contributing navigational faults and the comparative faults between the two ships. This is a fascinating account of a tragic event with the trappings of an unsolved mystery.

Author: Roger Macdonald
Genre: Textbooks
Publisher: R A C Publishing

All you need to know about taking your car across the Channel. Advice on getting your passport: choosing the crossing: the best holiday routes and what bargains to bring back, is all in this book complied by Roger Macdonals. Where to eat and stay, what to do and see in and around the continental Channel ports with services from Dover. Street plans, route maps and colour illustrations bring alive a little-known but charming part of northern France and western Belgium and guide you towards the rest of Europe. Illustrated.

Author: MACDONALD, ROGER

Author: HASTINGS, MAX

Author: Sir Max Hastings
Genre: History
Publisher: Pan Books

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Author: KEMP, PETER (Edited by)

Author: Robin J. Brooks
Genre: History
Publisher: Countryside Books

Presents an illustrated account of Oxfordshire's airfields during the Second World War, the planes and the pilots who flew them and the local civilians who worked alongside them.