See This World Before the Next: Cruising With Cpr Steamships in the Twenties and Thirties - Softcover
See this World Before the Next pays homage to the romantic era of cruising to the world's exotic destinations - in the first class style of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Though the Canadian Pacific Railway was a national enterprise in name, its founders were free-traders in practice and global thinkers by nature. The first cruise ships offered unheard of luxury and an opportunity to travel to major ports and distant corners of the world. Contained in the book are glimpses of foreign countries and amazing sights, vintage brochures and posters, detailed two-way correspondence, timetables, engineering plans and photographs, news clips, sailing schedules, passenger bulletins and promotional materials, and cruise-ship ephemera and travellers' diaries carefully culled from CPR and other archives by a patient and talented historian/archivist. The author's threedecade interest in CPR cruise ship material and a predilection for scouring flea markets and old collections of ephemera have brought fascinating and exotic material to light.
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
About the Author:
David Laurence Jones is manager of internal communications at Canadian Pacific Railway. A history graduate from Concordia University, he worked for fourteen years in the railway's corporate archives, researching and collecting stories and anecdotes about the CPR's rich heritage. He has contributed many historical writings to company publications and is co-author of Canadian Pacific Posters: 1883-1963, and author of Tales of the CPR.
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
- PublisherFifth House
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1897252870
- ISBN 13 9781897252871
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages208
(No Available Copies)
Search Books: Create a WantIf you know the book but cannot find it on AbeBooks, we can automatically search for it on your behalf as new inventory is added. If it is added to AbeBooks by one of our member booksellers, we will notify you!
Create a Want