Lunching on deck are , from right to left , Moss Hart , Cole Porter , Monty Woolley , Linda Porter , Howard Sturges , and travel writer William Powell . Three weeks earlier , Porter had composed " Begin the Beguine ” on board .
"I understood you to say reflect the sun's force?" "Precisely. ... We must have the power in our metal to throw back the sun's force when we get it." "I begin to see," Ronnit murmured. ... Like a man trying to push a time-liner?
History of passenger ships from the first crossing of the Atlantic by a steam powered vessel in 1819 to the great cruise ships of today.
J. Kent Layton describes the heyday of the superliners and explains what life was like for passengers, both rich and poor.
Depicts five famous ships that have been lost at sea in modern times, the Empress of Ireland, the Lusitania, the Andrea Doria, the Brittanic, and the Titanic.
In Perl One-Liners, author and impatient hacker Peteris Krumins takes you through more than 100 compelling one-liners that do all sorts of handy things, such as manipulate line spacing, tally column values in a table, and get a list of ...
This beautifully illustrated book considers over a century of liner design: from the striking graphics created to promote liners to the triumphs of engineering, and from luxurious interiors to on board fashion and activities.
Even with optimum winds and the most skilled captain , sailing ships typically took twenty - two days or more . Even though the Great Western was important , Brunel's second ship , the steel - hulled , propeller - driven Great Britain ...
Sumptuous volume recalls the glorious early years of elegant transatlantic travel. Over 190 historic photographs depict exterior and interior views of 101 great ocean liners, including the Virginian, Imperator, Vaterland,...
A collection of 10,000 side-splitting one-line jokes arranged in categories from bestselling humour editor Geoff Tibballs.