Cruise Ships: The World's Most Luxurious Vessels
- ISBN-10
- 1783461055
- ISBN-13
- 9781783461059
- Series
- Cruise Ships
- Category
- Transportation
- Pages
- 288
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-06-13
- Publisher
- Casemate Publishers
- Author
- Peter C. Smith
Description
The stunning elegance and luxurious interiors of todays vast fleet of cruise liners remains unrecorded in all but holiday brochures. This book gives a complete overview of the cream of these ships, todays queens of the sea. Each liner is illustrated and described with color illustrations of external and interior views. Details of the design, building and service history of each vessel are provided with vital statistics of the ship and its facilities.Among the ships included are Cunards Queen Victoria and Queen Mary 2, the big new Princess Line liners—Ruby, Grand Sea and Celebrity Eclipse, the two Ocean Village ships and the largest of the P&O liners Ventura, Oceana, Arcadia, Aurora and Artemis. This is a book of reference for maritime enthusiasts, would-be holiday cruisers and those who have been passengers.
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