Pleasure Steamers [Audiobook] download free by Andrew Gladwell
- Listen audiobook: Pleasure Steamers
- Author: Andrew Gladwell
- Release date: 2013/6/23
- Publisher: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Transportation
- ISBN: 9780747812050
- Rating: 9.34 of 10
- Votes: 521
- Review by: Kamila Leigh
- Review rating: 8.51 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/9
- Duration: 46M54S in 256 kbps (12.8 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-27
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, WAV, AC3, MP3, ATRAC, FLAC, MPEG4 (compression TAR.BZ2, ZIP, TAR.GZ, RAR, CBC, TAR.7Z)
- Total pages original book: 64
- Includes a PDF summary of 5 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 3M16S (1 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: The first commercial paddle steamer was the Comet of 1812. Soon competitive steamer services developed, resulting in bigger and more magnificent vessels, and before long no seaside resort was complete without a pleasure steamer moored alongside the pier. By the 1970s, however, the ships had almost all disappeared and now only three remain in service - Waverley, Balmoral and Kingswear Castle - delighting a new generation of daytrippers. Andrew Gladwell gives us a wonderful glimpse into the bygone age when a pleasure steamer trip was an essential part of countless seaside holidays, and outlines the ongoing efforts to preserve what remains of pleasure steamer heritage in Britain.
- Other categories, genre or collection: British & Irish History, Social & Cultural History, Ships & Shipping
- Download servers: vBoxxCloud, FileServe, MEGA, Torrent, Monova, Mejor Torrent, Uploaded, 4Shared, Microsoft OneDrive. Compressed in TAR.BZ2, ZIP, TAR.GZ, RAR, CBC, TAR.7Z
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 11.02 USD
- Dimensions: 149x210x5.08mm
- Weight: 178g
- Printed by: Shire Publications
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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