A CENTURY OF SEA TRAVEL: PERSONAL ACCOUNTS FROM THE STEAMSHIP ERA.

UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.MINT/NMINT.Wrapped and protected from day of issue/purchase - as new.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp, clean,green+white background with green+white lettering and colour pictorial illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf- wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright, tight,clean and pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - unread,apart from my own collation Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, original plain pale green cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked black letters to spine/backstrip,a blue+white striped headband,and immaculate colour montage'd shipping lines flags and funnel markings illustrated endpapers.UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn,6-192pp [paginated] includes an introduction,13 chapters,profuse contemporary sepia+b/w photographs and illus,similarly profuse,contemporary colour postcards/posters/paintings illus throughout the text and the book,a bibliography,an index,picture credits+acknowledgements.Plus [unpaginated] colour contemporary poster vignetted half-title page,double-page contemporary scenic harbour-side sepia photographic title page and a contents list/table.
This book is a voyage through the life of the passenger steamship,a voyage described by travellers who sailed on these vessels,and it carries within it their thoughts and experiences,mirrored here in words and pictures.The pictures are memories of ships and places in times gone by, glimpses of steamship travel through the years.
In memoirs and letters home,diaries and journals the writers recorded every aspect of their seagoing experiences: they wrote of their ship,it's crew and their fellow passengers,of the food and entertainment on board,of romance,accidents and disasters,and of being dreadfully sick. They noted incidents on board that amused them or angered them, described the ports at which their ship called,and the fear and excitement of storms at sea.
The writers were emigrants or administrators,soldiers, men of letters,young men seeking their fortune,wives on their way to new homes in distant lands; some were rich, many were poor and escaping the hardship of downtrodden lives; all had in common the experience of voyaging at sea.
The authors have woven their words into a narrative that describes so evocatively a world that has now disappeared but that, with a huge collection of rare and beautiful illustrations,brings back to life the glorious heyday of the steamship.
Christopher Deakes worked for many years as a shipping agent in the Far East and in different parts of Africa.He has a large collection of shipping postcards and his first book, 'The Postcard History of the Passenger Liner',was published to great acclaim.
Thomas Stanley was an architect and a collector of shipping postcards before becoming a full-time postcard and ephemera dealer specialising in shipping.Many of the images used in this book are from his collection.
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