by John Graves

200 inspiring, entertaining, informative and beautifully composed images that perfectly capture the golden age of cruising.

Marine Photo Service was the first company in the world to take photographs of passengers as they travelled by ships to exotic destinations across five continents.

This book draws on the images and on interviews with photographers, crew members and passengers, to explore the self-contained world on board, the destinations, the ships themselves and the ever powerful lull of the sea.

John Graves is a curator at the National Maritime Museum. He has lectured on many subjects including the Museum's vast ship model collection.

• Hardback
• 256 pages with 15 colour and 200 black & white and images
• ISBN: 9780948065538