Lost liners

KÉPGARANCIA: Alba Litera saját kép. Témakör: Hajózás, Közlekedéstörténet Alcím: From the Titanic to the Andrea Doria The Ocean Floor Reveals Its Greatest Ships Író/Szerző: Robert D. Ballard - Rick Archbold Kiadó: Hyperion/ Madison Press Book Kiadás éve: 1997 Oldalszám: 224 Kötés: Vászon, Fűzött, keménytáblás, védőborítóban Nyelv: Angol Állapot: óvott, vigyázott ISBN: 9780786862962 Méret: 30 cm x 28,5 cm The stories of the great lost liners - the Titanic, Lusitania, Britannic. Empress of Ireland, Andrea Doria - are filled with drama, romance and tragedy. Today those fabled ships that lie on the ocean floor comprise an extraordinary underwater museum. In this large and lavishly illustrated volume, underwater explorer Robert D. Ballard gives a guided tour of these ghostly ships and tell the complete story of the glory days of the Atlantic liners. High-quality underwater images reveal the lost ships today. eerily preserved for decades, while a host of paintings, period photographs and illustration recall the splendor that once was. Tartalomjegyzék Revisiting Lost Liners A Better Way to Cross: The Birth of the Transatlantic Ocean Liner, 1819-1900 Feiendly Rivals: The Story of the Lousitania and Mauretania, 1907-1935 Death of a Dream: The Saga of the Olympic and the Titanic Forgotten Sister: The Brief Life of White Star's Britannic, 1914-1916 High-Seas Society: Normandic, Queen Mary and the Rise of Glamour, 1919-1945 Fast Fade: The Twilight of the Atlantic Passenger Liner, 1945-1956 Protecting Lost Liners