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Title

Ile de France and the golden age of transatlantic travel : high style on the high seas / Thomas Kepler.

Author

Kepler, Thomas, 1954-

Publication

Guilford, Connecticut : Lyons Press, [2022]

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Description

1 volume : illustrations (black and white, and colour); 29 cm

Summary

"The story of the luxury liner Ile de France, which sailed into New York harbor for the first time in 1927, bringing to America the first great, coordinated example of what the French then called L'Art Moderne. The penchant the Ile de France had for attracting the famous, the talented, and the youthful ensured her place in the pantheon of immortal Atlantic liners"--

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction -- Evolution of design -- Construction and trials -- "Its general beauty is so colossal that it baffles one." -- Heyday: the 1920's and 1930's -- The war years -- Postwar rebirth and renaissance -- To the rescue -- The last voyage -- The legend of the Ile de France.

ISBN

9781493053490
1493053493
9781493053506 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2021022615

OCLC

1264173498
on1264173498

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library