Buy this book on-line Falkus, Malcolm : The Blue Funnel Legend: A History of the Ocean Steam Ship Company, 1865 - 1973UK: Macmillan Academic and Professional,1990
First edition, 1990, hardback, 9.5 " x 6", very good condition, in a very good unclipped dust jacke with light edgewear, publisher's original grey clothboards with gilt blocking to spine, xix + 410 pages including index, internally clean tight and bright, 56 b/w photo illustrations,map and tables, loosely inserted fold-out corrected map. Contents include: List of Tables; List of Plates; Foreword by Nicholas Barber; Preface; Map of the Trade Routes 1866 and 1965; Introduction - Ocean to Ocean; A Unique Style of Management; Sailings and Services; Representatives Abroad; Eastward Ho! The Beginnings of Ocean Steam Ship; Combined Efforts - Holts and Conference System; The New Century - Profits and Perils; After the War - An Uncertain World; The 1930s - Collapse and Revival; The Company at War; Picking up the Pieces; Into the 1960s- Calm before the Storm; Organising a Group; Blue Funnel Contained - New Ships and New Enterprises; Epilogue; Notes; Sources and Bibliography; Appendices - Ocean Managers and Directors - List of Co-owners 1886 - List of Correspondents Februart 1902; The Phemius Epic; Letter to Midshipmen on Appointment 1953; Indices - General, Places, Persons, Ships. Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Falkus, Malcolm : The Blue Funnel Legend: A History of the Ocean Steam Ship Company, 1865 - 1973. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including rare books, livres illustrées, out of print books, libri antichi and used books. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |