The Only Way to Cross

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Collier Books, 1978 - Business & Economics - 434 pages

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Atlantic Overture
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Building the Mauretania ΙΟ
10
OlympicTitanic
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The Only Way to Cross
John Maxtone-Graham
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American Aquitania ashore Ballin Berengaria berth boat deck boiler Bremen bridge British cabin Captain Cherbourg coal Compagnie Générale Transatlantique crew crossing Cunard dining room engines Europe feet fire first-class floating France Frank Braynard Collection French funnels German giant Gibbs Hamburg-Amerika Line harbor Harland & Wolff Havre hull hundred Ile de France Imperator Imperator's later launch Le Havre lifeboats Liverpool lounge Lusitania maiden voyage marine maritime Mauretania Mewès midocean morning naval Navy never night Normandie Normandie's North Atlantic ocean officer Olympic Olympic's Paris passage passengers pier port portholes promenade deck propellers public rooms purser Queen Elizabeth Queen Mary Race sailed seemed ship ship's shore side smoking room Southampton space speed starboard steam steel stern stewards thirties thousand tion Titanic Titanic's tugs turbines Turbinia twenties Vaterland vessel White Star White Star Line York

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John Kurtz Maxtone-Graham (August 2, 1929 - July 6, 2015) was a speaker and writer on ocean liners and maritime history. He was born in Orange, New Jersey and raised in Hoboken, New Jersey. He graduated from Brown University in 1951. He served in the United States Marine Corps during the Korean War and had once worked unsuccessfully as a Broadway stage manager. In 1972, he wrote his first book on ocean liners, The Only Way to Cross, to be followed by numerous other books for small publishing houses. France/Norway, was published in 2010, and in March 2012 he wrote and published Titanic Tragedy. He is the father of writer Ian Maxtone-Graham. John Maxtone-Graham died from respiratory failure in Manhattan on July 6, 2015, aged 85.

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TitleThe Only Way to Cross
AuthorJohn Maxtone-Graham
Editionillustrated
PublisherCollier Books, 1978
Original fromthe University of California
DigitizedMar 6, 2008
ISBN0020960107, 9780020960102
Length434 pages
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Business & Economics / Industries / Transportation
Transportation / General
Transportation / Ships & Shipbuilding / General
  
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