The Cruise Ship: A Very British Institution

by Nick Robins

The Cruise Ship was a British idea, first proposed in the late 1830s and the first cruise ships were British too. From the 1840s, P&O encouraged passengers to take holidays on its line voyages, even getting William Makepeace Thackeray to extol the virtues of the Mediterranean sea route to Egypt. In The Cruise Ship: A Very British Institution Nick Robins looks at the 160 year history of the British cruise ship and explains how the industry grew from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0752446320
• ISBN13: 9780752446325
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: Tempus
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.7" x 9.6"