Raro esemplare della prima edizione di Konemann Verlagsgesellschaft del 1999 in perfetto stato di conservazione. In-4 oblungo, legatura editoriale con copertina rigida telata rossa, con impressioni oro al piatto anteriore e al dorso; con sovraccoperta in carta plastificata (appena ingiallita, con piccolo strappo al piede in prima) illustrata a colori con alette; 352 pp., con risguardi rossi e antiporta e colophon illustrati in nero; con oltre 350 fotografie in nero nel testo.
Con la consulenza di Clive Harvey, le fotografie di The Hulton Getty Picture Collection e la ricerca fotografica di Alex Linghorn.
Dall’aletta anteriore: Liners: The Golden Age chronicles the great era of ocean liner travel from the close of the nineteenth century to the launch of the QE2 and beyond. In an age when a sea voyage stood for adventure, escape, and for some the prospect of a new life in a strange land, ocean liners with their glamour and prestige more than captured the imagination. Rivalries between nations abounded, epitomized by the race for the Atlantic and the prized Blue Riband, and reflected in the names of many of the ocean giants: Vaterland, Britannic, Ile de France. From the first class to steerage, deck games to banquets, from the celebrations of maiden voyages to the adversity of disaster in both war and peace, this book contains over 350 photographs from the Hulton Getty Picture Collection.
