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HOWARTH , DAVID & STEPHEN: The Story of P&O : The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company
Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1986 First VG/VG edgewear 224pp. Colour & b/w photos, plates, maps, facsimiles and illustrations throughout. Endpaper colour illustrations 10.5 x 7 1000g ¶ This is the history of the company and its operations. For more than 150 years P&O has been one of the world`s greatest shipping lines. Beginning with the mail contract to Gibraltar, P&O quickly became the British way to travel the world. The first shipping company to offer cruises, more than 100 years later cruising on P&O`s famous white ships remains an important part of the company`s activities, although it is now an internationally based group with many wide-ranging interests.Due to the weight of this book there may be additional postage costs
Offered for GBP 12.00 = appr. US$ 23.88 by: Stort Books - Book number: 18792