CARMANIA PRESS BOOKS
THE LAST WHITE EMPRESSES
by Clive Harvey120 pp., 8-3/8 x 10-3/4, 37 color and 80 b&w photographs, 2004.
Paperback, 37.00
The magnificent White Empresses sailed weekly between Montreal and Europe. They cruised to the West Indies and South American ports. The White Empresses offered luxury afloat, and this new book by Clive Harvey does justice to the last Canadian Pacific Line Empresses: EMPRESS OF BRITAIN, EMPRESS OF ENGLAND, and EMPRESS OF CANADA. It also follows the story of the vessels with their later owners.
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LINERS AND CRUISE SHIPS: SOME NOTABLE SMALLER VESSELS
by Anthony Cooke136 pp. 8-3/8 x 10-3/4, 154 b&w photos. 8 facsimilies + 3 drawings, 1996.
Paperback, 32.00
This book concentrates on smaller, but equally interesting, passenger liners of the oceans. The author has chosen 46 vessels, which he has seen or which especially interest him, built from 1940 onwards--he looks at them in some detail. As one has come to expect from this respected author, the text is always informative and easy to follow while the photographs are always clear and offer a flavor of the character of the ships' passages and ports of call.
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LINERS AND CRUISE SHIPS 2: SOME MORE NOTABLE AND SMALLER VESSELS
by Anthony Cooke114 pp., 8-3/8 x 10-3/4, over 100 b&w photos, 2000.
Paperback, 32.00
A high quality follow-up to 1996's Liners & Cruise Ships by the same author. Includes such vessels as: BULOLO; EXCALIBUR; FALSTRIA; LAURENTIA; WESTERDAM; ACCRA; PRINCE GEORGE; KARANJA; MARCO POLO; CALEDONIA; CHANGSHA; ESPERIA; LEICESTERSHIRE; BAUDOUINVILLE; SKAUBRYN; INDIA; VIET-NAM; BALTIC STAR; COVADONGA; UIGE; METEOR; JEDINSTVO; ST. HELENA; REGINA MARIS; OCEAN MAJESTY; CALYPSO; LINDBLAD EXPLORER; RANGATIRA; AQUARIUS; POLARLYS. If you haven't heard of many of these don't worry, by the end of the book they will all be familiar friends. Already acclaimed by readers, fellow authors, and the maritime press, this is an essential purchase.
LINERS AND CRUISE SHIPS 3:FURTHER NOTABLE SMALLER VESSELS
by Anthony CookePaperback, 40.00
160 pp., 8-3/8 x 10-3/4, 32 color, 124 b&w photographs, 2003.
There are many publications covering the great days of the glamorous liners, perhaps too many. Yet, the question, "Is there great interest in lesser-known passenger ships" has been answered resoundingly by the publication of Liners & Cruise Ships 3. The original edition was so successful that it demanded a sequal. With Edition Three this has now become a series. Although profusely illustrated with colour and black-and-white photographs, this is not simply a picture book with captions. The author is one of the UK's leading maritime authorities and his narrative is both very readable and factually complete. A best seller for 2003 for sure.
OCEAN LINER CHRONICLES
by William H. Miller136 pp., 8-3/8 x 10-3/4, 162 b&w and 13 color photos, 2001
Paperback, 37.00
In his most enthusiastic style, Bill Miller tells the stories of 26 of the world's greatest liners, including; AQUITANIA, VULCANIA, ILE DE FRANCE, BREMEN, NORMANDIE, ORION, NIEUW AMSTERDAM, the second MAURETANIA, AMERICA, HIMALAYA, UGANDA, EMPRESS OF CANADA and coming up-to-date with the massive new cruise ships CARNIVAL DESTINY and GRAND PRINCESS. Superbly illustrated. A must for the bookshelves of all liner enthusiasts!
MERCHANT SHIPS OF A BYGONE ERA: THE POST-WAR YEARS
by William H. Miller136 pp., 8-3/8 x 10-3/4, 203 b&w photos, 1997
Paperback, 33.00
Another elgant, engaging title from this master author. Miller describes it as a book of pure nostalgia...a pictorial parade of yesterday's shipping--the liners, the passenger-cargo combinations, the freighters and tankers and some early specialist types. It covers the two decades after World War II, with the main shipowners at the forefront; Cunard, the French Line, the Italian Line, United States Lines, Moore-McCormack, Grace Line, Royal Mail, Union-Castle, Farrell, P&O, British India, NYK--all covered here. The photographs are of the finest quality and all are arranged by area: Trans-Atlantic, Tropic Water, African Trades, East of Suez, Pacific Waters, oil, special ships and cargoes, and shipbuilding. There are sights of all the famous vessels along the way, and the text is always informative and steeped in the aroma of yesteryear. Highly recommended.
PASSENGER LINERS AMERICAN STYLE
by William H. Miller160 pp., 8-3/8 x 10-3/4, hundreds of b&w photos, 1999
Paperback, 35.00
Excellent photographic record of American Passenger Liners. Includes vessls from the following lines: Alaska, Alcoa, American Banner, American Export, American Hawaii, American President, Bull, Delta, Eastern Steamship, Farrell, Grace, Hawaiian-textron, Matson, MSTS, Moore-McCormack, Panama, Peninsular & Occidental, United Fruit, United States. Hundreds of excellently reproduced photographs and a clear, historical text by the author make this a must have item.
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PASSENGER LINERS FRENCH STYLE
by William H. Miller
142 pp., 8-3/8 x 10-3/4, over 250 b&w photos, 2001
Paperback, 35.00
This best-selling author has produced another of his well-informed, compulsively readable and beautifully illustrated books about liners. This time, he has chosen the fabulous French ships from the years immediately after World War II right up to the present day. They range from the NORMANDIE (still afloat in the late 1940s although she never again saw service), the ILE DE FRANCE and the LIBERTE to the beautiful liners of the Messageries Maritimes; and from the PASTEUR, with her mighty funnel, to the MISTRAL and the other present-day cruise ships. Illustrated by superbly reproduced photographs, both exterior and interior, this book is a must for every liner enthusiast's bookshelf.
MEDITERRANEAN SHIPPING
by Laurence Dunn132 pp., 8-3/8 x 10-3/4, over 100 b&w photos, 1999.
Paperback, 35.00
The best part of a century of Mediterranean shipping is covered in this excellent photographic record of the region and vessels. Includes ships from; Gibraltar, Spain, France, Malta, Monaco, Italy, Yugoslavia, Albania, Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Russia, Israel, Egypt. The photos are fantastic, with plenty of history and quirky information. Recommended by maritime critics.
THAMES SHIPPING
by Laurence Dunn112 pp, 8-3/8 x 10-3/4, 289 photographs + drawing + 5 maps, 1992, reprinted 1997.
Paperback, 32.00
A visual feast of photographs taken by the noted shipping author and authority since the end of World War II. Laurence Dunn has lived at Gravesend for many years and has photographed tens of thousands of ships which have visited the Port of London during the last fifty years. From this priceless collection, two hundred and eighty of the best and the most interesting have been chosen to give a splendid panorama of Thames Shipping during one of its most interesting periods. The subjects vary from the great P&O and Orient liners to humble coasters and fussy tugs with many intermediate passenger liners, cargo ships of all sorts and sizes, passenger ferries large and small, and tankers sandwiched in between. As one would expect from this author, the captions are both detailed and informative.
THE SAXONIA SISTERS: THE STORY OF FOUR SPLENDID LINERS
by Clive Harvey96 pp., 8-3/8 x 10-3/4, 79 b&w and 17 color photos, 2001
Paperback, 32.00
A fine history of SAXONIA, IVERNIA, CARINTHIA and SYLVANIA, the pride of Cunard's post-War Canadian service, which went on to lead fascinating careers as the LEONID SOBINOV, FEDOR SHALYAPIN, FAIRSEA, FAIR WIND, FAIR PRINCESS, DAWN PRINCESS and ALBATROS. An important, well-researched yet extremely readable book about four important ships and a new author you will all be hearing a lot more from in the coming years.
SEVEN SEAS NAVIGATOR: SIX STARS ON THE OCEAN
by Maurizio Eliseo108 pp., 9-1/4 x 8-5/8, 247 color photos, 2001
Hardcover, 62.00
A spectacular souvenir book of Radisson Seven Seas Cruises cruise ship SEVEN SEAS NAVIGATOR. Tells of her design, construction and maiden voyage; and illustrates her splendid suites and public rooms. A few copies of this beautiful book are available for sale to the public. Over 240 photographs, most of which are in colour. Very limited stock only.
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THE SITMAR LINERS AND THE V SHIPS, 1928-1998
by Maurizio EliseoHardcover, 37.00
240 pp., 8-1/2 x 10-3/4, over 200 b&w and over 30 color photographs. 32 line drawings, + 5 fold-out plans, 1999
A magnificent title. In 1928 Alexandre Vlasov chartered his first vessel, named after his son Boris, thus starting the shipping activities of the Vlasov Group, nowadays one of the biggest shipping concerns in the world, which owns 25 ships and manages another 400. This examines in individual chapters the story of each of the passenger vessels owned by the Sitmar Line (the most famous of all Vlasovs companies) as well as the most recent cruise ships MINERVA and SEVEN SEAS NAVIGATOR. Also to each of the pioneer freighters owned by Sitmar (CASTELVERDE, CASTELBRUNO and CASTELMARIO) is given a full chapter containing her detailed history, accompanied by rare photographs of these long-forgotten coal tramps which actually constitute the earliest, interesting years of the Vlasov Group. In addition a complete fleet list gives technical and historical details of all the vessels owned by the Group in its 70 years of activity while over 270 photographs and 32 line drawings, almost all of them never before published, show all the ships owned by the company, from the 150-ton fishing-trawler CORVINA to the supertankers of the seventies. The iconography of the book pays particular attention to the earliest vessels of the thirties, the War Years and the emigrant ships. Diagrams, chronology, the history of Silver Line after its 1975 purchase by Vlasov and a chapter on the activities and the organisation of the present V. Ships complete this excellent title.
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OCEAN LINER ODYSSEY, 1958-1969
by Theodore W. Scull88 pp., 8-3/8 x 10-3/4, b&w photos, 1998
Paperback, 25.00 The sea journeys in this book begin in 1958. It is a book about the vessels, the companies and the people who made ocean passenger transport so memorable. Very fine photographs illustrate the vessels in harbour, at sea, in profile and up close. Included are journeys aboard: The French Line's SS LIBERTE and SS FLANDRE; North German Lloyds' TSS BREMEN, Swedish America's MS KUNGSHOLM, Hamburg-Atlantic's TSS HANSEATIC and Cunard's RMS SYLVANIA; Navigation Mixtes' SS PRESIDENT DE CAZALET, CGT's SS VILLE DE MARSEILLE and SS SAMPIERO CORSO; Holland America's SS ROTTERDAM; Royal Mail's RMS AMAZON and Swedish Lloyd's MS PATRICIA; Cunard's RMS QUEEN ELIZABETH; CTTs SS FRANCE; Northland Navigation's MV NORTHLAND PRINCE; RMS QUEEN ELIZABETH 2; Adriatica's MS SAN MARCO and Italia's TSS CRISTOFORO COLOMBO.
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