Skip to main content

Crossing In Style

April 2023
1min read

 

If there’s a cruise in your future, you probably should pack Luxury Liners: Life on Board , by Catherine Donzel (Vendome Press, 240 pages, $50.00). The coffeetable-size book, following a chronology of embarkation to arrival, is filled with striking photos and memorabilia of the great ships—the Queen Mary , the Ile de France , the France of 1962, and dozens more.

A 1930s Cunard Line Poster.
 
luxury liners2006_5_14a

If there’s a cruise in your future, you probably should pack Luxury Liners: Life on Board , by Catherine Donzel (Vendome Press, 240 pages, $50.00). The coffeetable-size book, following a chronology of embarkation to arrival, is filled with striking photos and memorabilia of the great ships—the Queen Mary , the Ile de France , the France of 1962, and dozens more. The large format brings you close enough to stand at the De Grasse ’s pool-side bar in 1940, settle back to enjoy teatime on the Liberté , and imagine the beads that formed on the chilled silver champagne bucket from the fabled Normandie . Many of the images are beautifully reproduced in sepia, the tint of memory.

Then, even if your ocean voyage doesn’t turn out to be quite like these— and it won’t—the pictures that have seeped into your brain will help shape a very pleasant reality.

We hope you enjoy our work.

Please support this 72-year tradition of trusted historical writing and the volunteers that sustain it with a donation to American Heritage.

Donate

Stories published from "October 2006"

Authored by: The Editors

A Pair of Distinguished Contemporary Authors Weigh In On A Nineteenth-Century Genius

Authored by: David Lander

America’s best-known chair is on the brink of extinction

Authored by: The Editors

Now on DVD: A Brand-New Classic Western

Authored by: The Editors

Baseball’s Ultimate Act

Authored by: Hugh Rawson

Bunk

Authored by: Joshua Zeitz

Viewing a transformation that still affects all of us—through the prism of a single year

Authored by: Nathan Ward

One of the half-dozen most famous Americans of the twentieth century steps into full daylight

Authored by: Karen Hornick

On what they still called their “home screens,” Americans got to watch the future

Authored by: Phil Patton

The Ford Mustang changed the industry when its creator realized “people want economy so badly they don’t care what they pay for it”

Authored by: Phil Patton

What we spent to get through 1964

Featured Articles

The world’s most prominent actress risked her career by standing up to one of Hollywood’s mega-studios, proving that behind the beauty was also a very savvy businesswoman. 

Rarely has the full story been told about how a famed botanist, a pioneering female journalist, and First Lady Helen Taft battled reluctant bureaucrats to bring Japanese cherry trees to Washington. 

Often thought to have been a weak president, Carter was strong-willed in doing what he thought was right, regardless of expediency or the political fallout.

Why have thousands of U.S. banks failed over the years? The answers are in our history and politics.

In his Second Inaugural Address, Abraham Lincoln embodied leading in a time of polarization, political disagreement, and differing understandings of reality.