The New Cunard Queens (9 reviews)
Nils Schwerdtner
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ISBN: 9781848321069
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Queen Mary 2, Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth
Nils Schwerdtner
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Paperback 208 pages
ISBN: 9781848321069
Published: 23 May 2011
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The venerable Queen Elizabeth 2 has long since become a floating legend. Launched in 1967, she was for three decades considered the last of her kind, a cherished and beloved remnant from the age of the great ocean liners. So Cunard’s decision, on the eve of the new Millennium, to build a new liner for the transatlantic service, caused widespread interest. The Queen Mary 2 would not have been a true Cunarder had she not embodied a number of superlatives and when she entered service in 2004 she was the longest, widest, highest and most expensive passenger ship ever built, at once a eulogy to maritime nostalgia and the embodiment of modern technology and design. rnrnTo further build on the success of these two ships Cunard commissioned the Queen Victoria, launched in December 2007. Sporting the company’s classic livery – black hull, white superstucture and red funnel – the ship is employed exclusively for luxury cruises from her homeport of Southampton. Cunard’s new Queen Elizabeth will be in service in early 2011 and the author covers her design and commissioningrnrnIn this new, updated paperback edition the author describes the history of the Cunard Line, the first years in service of the Queen Mary 2, and the conception, building and launching of the Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth, before saying farewell to the QE2, which was retired in November 2009. This beautiful book is both a lavish tribute to the world’s best-known shipping line and an intriguing examination of the world’s most famous contemporary cruise liners.
This is a very high-quality presentation. The illustrations are uniformly first rate and the text highly informative. It certainly has not shirked from presenting the bad news as well as the good.
Baird Maritime - January 2012
This is a very high-quality presentation. The illustrations are uniformly first rate and the text highly informative. It certainly has not shirked from presenting the bad news as well as the good.Baird Maritime - January 2012
The book's photographs, laid out neatly on glossy pages, are excellent enough to have cunard cruise fanatics day dreaming of “being there”. The saying goes that “if you can't afford the cruise, it costs nothing... [read full review]NAUTICAL MAGAZINE
The book is probably best described as a tribute to Cunard and its ships. It is comprehensively illustrated, the writing is lively, the book design is crisp and straightforward. There's nothing not to like about... [read full review]Speedreaders
Ownership is better for a book of this quality. For this reviewer, the book rekindled interest in Cunard's liners of the past.Nautical Magazine
An enjoyable read.SEA LINES
The New Cunard Queens is an immaculately presented history of the luxury liners and the company's renowed founder, samuel cunard.This is a good book on a subject on which several books have been written and... [read full review]Shipping Today and Yesterday
This beautiful book is both a lavish tribute to the world's best-known shipping line and an intriguing examination of the world's most famous contemporary cruise liners.Heritage and History
…the latest book about the Cunard tradition is itself a classy piece of work. The New Cunard Queens is beautifully presented, with a generous number of fine illustrations on high-quality paper.Author Nils Schwerdtner does... [read full review]
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About Nils Schwerdtner
Nils Schwerdtner has been interested in the history of passenger shipping since his childhood. He is the author of three books about maritime subjects as well as numerous articles and he regularly lectures on passenger liners. He lives in Hamburg, Germany.
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