HARBOR HILL MARITIME BOOKS
IMPORTED TITLES
We are pleased to offer our North American customers the fine maritime books published
by CARMANIA PRESS of London. All are definitive works by authorities in ocean liner and shipping history
and feature superb reproductions of historic and modern photographs on heavily coated stock in sewn bindings.
(Customers outside North America should order these titles from Mainmast Books, http://www.mainmastbooks.co.uk)
RECENTLY PUBLISHED
HOLLAND AMERICA LINE: "THE SPOTLESS FLEET" (quantity limited; about to go out of print) by Stephen J. Card, M.N.I.
224 pp., 12 x 9, 84 full-color paintings, 16 original pen-and-ink drawings, 2006.
Cloth, 75.00 buy both Card books ($150 value) for $155
Following CUNARDER, which contains fine reproductions of Captain Stephen Card's paintings of famous Cunard Line ships, Carmania Press has now produced a companion volume of the many paintings this admired artist has made of Holland America Line vessels. Most of these beautiful pictures hang on board the current Holland America vessels but some are in private collections. The book forms a handsome record of the development of this famous fleet from the very early liners to the present-day cruise ships. Each painting is accompanied by a page of informed text detailing the ship's career and at the end there is a detailed fleet list. In addition there is a biography of Captain Card and a chapter on the paints and other materials he favors. Order Info • Return to Home Page
CUNARDER: MARITIME PAINTINGS BY STEPHEN J. CARD, M.N.I.
by Stephen J. Card, M.N.I.
176 pp., 12 x 9, 40 full-color paintings, 9 original pen-and-ink drawings, 2005.
Cloth, 75.00, buy both Card books ($150 value) for $135
This is a sumptuous book. Stephen Card, whose paintings of liners and other vessels are so well known to shiplovers, was commissioned to produce a collection of pictures to be hung on board the new Queen Mary 2. These are now reproduced on heavy matte archival paper and printed in five colors for superb results in this beautiful book. They present a splendid pictorial history of the most famous ships of the Cunard fleet, including the Britannia of 1840, Mauretania, Lusitania, Aquitania, Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth, QE2, QM2 among many. Each painting is accompanied by an informative text outlining the history of the ship portrayed. To make the book even more valuable, it includes a chapter by Stephen Card in which he writes about his work, his tools, and the techniques he uses; an introduction by Commodore Ron Warwick, the QM2's master; a foreword by Stephen M. Payne, the new liner's designer; and a chapter by Maurizio Eliseo about the building and testing of the ship, in which he was involved. Presented in tear-resistent dust jacket, this is a BIG book to enjoy for years. Order Info • Return to Home Page
LINERS OF THE GOLDEN AGE
A Pictorial Record of Passenger Ships in the 1930s
by William H. Miller, Anthony Cooke, Maurizio Eliseo239 pp., 9.5 x 11.75, illustrated, 2005.
Cloth, 75.00
They were the greatest and, in ways, grandest of the floating palaces--those magnificent liners of the 1920s and '30s. They sail again in a splendid, coffee-table style book of a vast collection of 300 mostly unpublished photos. There's the entire cast: Mauretania, Olympic, Berengaria, Paris, Ile de France, Bremen, Rex, Normandie, Queen Mary, America and many more, 105 ships to be precise. A trio of fine maritime authors--William Miller, Anthony Cooke, and Maurizio Eliseo--have created what some have called "the finest book on ocean liners in recent years!" It is a "must" for all maritime libraries. Order Info • Return to Home Page
PASSENGER LINERS SCANDINAVIAN STYLE
by Bruce Peter176 pp., 8-3/8 x 10-3/4, 25 color and 189 b&w photographs, 2004.
Hardcover, 55.00
New from Carmania Press is this authoritative and superbly-produced title on some of the world's most interesting liners. It has Carmania's usually high production values, but this title is further enhanced with a hardback cover and printed dust jacket. Norway, Denmark and Sweden have produced many fine passenger ships, both for short-sea routes and for longer voyages across the Atlantic and elsewhere. And, of course, Norwegian owners have been at the forefront of the modern booming cruise industry. Indeed, since the 1960s, Scandinavian designers have been responsible for many outstanding and innovative ships that have established the trends followed by other nations. Bruce Peter's new book is an account of the history, design and, above all, the style of these ships. It is highly readable and heavily illustrated with color and black-and-white photographs. Among the ships described are the Winston Churchill; Sagafjord; Vistafjord; the luxurious Kungholms, Gripholms and Stockholms; and the modern cruise ships of companies such as Royal Caribbean and Norwegian Cruise Line.
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