Ocean Liners: Speed and Style

by Daniel Finamore (Editor), Ghislaine Wood (Editor)

288 pages, Hardcover

Published January 29, 2018

About the author

Dan Finamore is the Russell W. Knight Curator of Maritime Art and History at the Peabody Essex Museum, where he has organized over fifteen exhibitions on a wide range of maritime topics. His job involves the management, interpretation and display of a collection comprised of 50,000 paintings, models, charts, ship lines, navigating instruments and decorative arts. He has conducted extensive archaeological field research in Belize and elsewhere with a focus on European and American maritime communities both at sea and ashore. He is the author and/or editor of five books, including Maritime History as World History and Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea.

Reviews

[Sean Sexton]

This is a gorgeous coffee table book that looks at the history of ocean liners from an artistic and architectural view, rather than a historical one. The chapters are more like essays, written by different experts. The book is interesting, but not something to pick up if you're more interested in historical details.