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Cruise Confidential: A Hit Below the Waterline: Where the Crew Lives, Eats, Wars, and Parties. One Crazy Year Working on Cruise Ships (Travelers' Tales) List Price: $14.95 Sale Price: $5.40 Used From: $4.45

In Cruise Confidential, Brian David Bruns spills the dirt — or in this case, the dirty water — on those romantic, fun-filled vacations at sea. His hilarious chronicle of the year he spent working for Carnival Cruise Lines takes readers down into the areas where the crew works and lives, leaving readers gasping with laughter as they’re assaulted nonstop with events that range from the absurd to the utterly bizarre...

Doomed Ships: Great Ocean Liner Disasters (Dover Maritime) List Price: $12.95 Sale Price: $7.35 Used From: $6.88

These true-life adventures unfold amid flames, collision, and explosions, with frantic calls of SOS and a rush to clamber aboard lifeboats. Nearly 200 photographs, many from private collections, highlight tales of the vessels whose maritime lives ended in catastrophe: the Morro Castle, Normandie, Andrea Doria, Europa, and others.

Normandie: France's Legendary Art Deco Ocean Liner List Price: $100.00 Sale Price: $62.97 Used From: $57.50

A magnificent tribute to the illustrious and ill-fated steamship.Normandie was unquestionably the most beautiful ocean liner ever built. The world’s largest at the time, she also became the world’s fastest...

The First Great Ocean Liners in Photographs: 193 Views, 1897-1927 List Price: $16.95 Sale Price: $49.94 Used From: $0.59

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, Bismarck, Lusitania, Mauretania, Balmoral Castle, Titanic, Olympic, Aquitania, and dozens more...

Tunnel of the Apes [Illustrated] (Bazarada the Magician)

Collier’s, November 13,1937TUNNEL OF THE APESby Sax RohmerIllustrated by Ronald McLeodBazarada and the key to Gibraltar. Further exploits of the great magician, to whom all things mysterious are revealed and no task for humanity is too difficult...

The Fabulous Interiors of the Great Ocean Liners in Historic Photographs (Dover Maritime) List Price: $17.95 Sale Price: $10.19 Used From: $6.60

Some 200 superb photographs — in long shots and close-ups — capture exquisite interiors of world’s great "floating palaces" — 1890s to 1980s: Titanic, Île de France, Queen Elizabeth, United States, Europa, more...

Queen Mary 2: The Greatest Ocean Liner of Our Time List Price: $50.00 Sale Price: $15.00 Used From: $10.79

In January 2004, Cunard Line's latest flagship, the stupendous Queen Mary 2, will sail on her maiden voyage from England. Not merely a cruise ship, this fourth Cunard Queen is a true ocean liner, able to cross the Atlantic in all weathers at high speed, sustaining the company's celebrated heritage...

France/Norway: France's Last Liner/Norway's First Mega Cruise Ship List Price: $75.00 Sale Price: $47.95 Used From: $46.21

The dean of ocean-liner historians brings to life one of the last transatlantic liners: the legendary France, later renamed Norway.As a dedicated passenger during both the vessel's lives, John Maxtone-Graham is in a perfect position to give us this rich, profusely illustrated history of France/Norway...

Cruise Ship Blues: The Underside of the Cruise Ship Industry List Price: $14.95 Sale Price: $11.68 Used From: $0.01

Cruising is one of the fastest growing industries in the world. Attracting more than 12 million passengers a year, cruise ship companies are merging to become be-hemoths. And cruise ships themselves have swollen dramatically in size, now sometimes carrying more than 5,000 people on board...