The Golden Age of Ocean Liners

by Lee Server

The remarkable story of the international competition to build the world's fastest, largest, and most luxurious ships. Full color and archival photographs capture the glamour of this extraordinary era.

Introduction -- The floating palaces -- Life aboard ship -- Myth, media & popular culture -- Index

80 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 1996

About the author

Lee Server specialises in books on popular culture and literary history.

He is the critically acclaimed author of such as 'Danger Is My Business: The Illustrated History of the Fabulous Pulp Magazines' (1993), 'Over My Dead Body: The Sensational Age of the American Paperback' (1995) and the biography 'Robert Mitchum: Baby, I Don't Care' (2001).

Reviews

[reveurdart · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very good book. I liked that a section on movie adaptations were included, too (like the one starring the great Barbara Stanwyck); you don't always see that in books of this kind.

"A limited number of liners continued to serve most of their traditional routes, and do so to this day, but veteran ocean travelers knew they had seen the end of an era. The great golden age of luxury liners―frivolous, extravagant, romantic, and vital―was gone forever."

[Roger Weston · Rating 5 out of 5]

As far as coffee table books go, this is a winner. Just enough great photographs and anecdotes to give a sense of the mood and excitement of the Golden Age of Ocean Liners. Not a lot of depth here, but I like this book and page through it on occasion.

[Michael Heath-Caldwell · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good book on the grand old oceans liners.