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Another fine book from Carmania Press.
LINERS OF THE GOLDEN AGE Review by Peter Knego Many liner buffs adore the 1930s like no other time for good reason. The finest, most deluxe and over-the-top passenger ships seem to have sailed in that period between two devastating wars. But there are also others, like the modest and hardworking or short-lived AORANGI, NOORDAM, BERMUDA, and RUYS, largely overlooked or forgotten, that are given well-deserved mention. The text by Bill Miller flows forth like bubbles of alliterative champagne, ready to intoxicate the initiated and seduce the ocean liner nubile. Anthony Cooke and Maurizio Eliseo's eye-popping layout and astonishing selection of quality, slightly sepia photographs is paralleled, perhaps, only by Eliseo's award-winning TRANSATLANTICI from 2003. This will be the prime coffee table book in many a household, even those where ships may only enjoy a peripheral interest. For those of us who live and breathe "ocean liner", this is a must: a bedside portal through which to escape 21st Century chaos and relive an era full of camber, sheer, lustrous paneling, fine art, steam whistles, raked funnels, and riveted plates. LINERS OF THE GOLDEN AGE and a host of other fine Carmania Press titles (as well as Maurizio Eliseo and Paolo Piccone's brilliant TRANSATLANTICI) is available now through Mainmast Books. - Peter Knego Full English text. There is an extremely detailed fleet list based on a painstaking research of Lloyd's Confidential Index, Lloyd's Voyage Record Cards, and other first-hand contemporary sources. 240pp. Over 300 photographs. HBK. 300 x 240mm. Mainmast Books, Proprietor; Andrew Marshall Mainmast Books is owned by the Warsash Nautical Bookshop which offers a full range of nautical and maritime titles, including Professional Maritime publications, books and charts; Yachting, Sailing, and Boating title; and titles on other marine topics Carmania Press, P.O. Box 56435, London, SE3 0SZ, Great Britain. |
