BOOK REVIEW / A home on the rolling deep: Ocean Steamers - John Adams: New Cavendish, pounds 35

Saturday 27 March 1993 19:02 EST

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Ocean Steamers by John Adams (New Cavendish pounds 35), a history of passenger liners from 1820 to 1970, is a buff's guide full of tonnages, shipping regulations, voyage times and posters which would have you believe that it was all plain sailing.

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