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LEADER: 03897cam 2200661Ma 4500
001 ocm38222765
003 OCoLC
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008 971117s1986 enkabch 001 0 eng d
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050 14 $aHE945.P7$bH68 1986
082 04 $a387.5/065/41$219
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100 1 $aHowarth, David Armine,$d1912-1991.
245 14 $aThe story of P & O :$bthe Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company /$cDavid Howarth and Stephen Howarth.
246 3 $aStory of P and O
260 $aLondon :$bWeidenfeld & Nicolson,$c℗♭1986.
300 $a224 pages :$billustrations (some color), facsimiles, maps, portraits ;$c27 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
500 $aIncludes index.
505 0 $aForeward -- Steam and sail -- Onwards to India -- Overland via Suez -- Cruising -- Crews and passengers -- Eastern seas -- The Crimean War and the canal -- Pax Britannica -- Merger and expansion -- Endurance -- End of empire -- Changing patterns -- Local wars -- A new era.
520 $a"P & O is as old as seagoing steamships and its story weaves like thread thourgh the history of the British Empire. For 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 natural way for generations of Englishmen and women to travel to India and the Far East. Many great names and colourful personalities have played their part in the story since Brodie McGhie Wilcox and Arthur Anderson won, in 1837, their first contract to carry mail. Within a few years P & O ships were familiar sights in ports throughout the Mediterranean and the Middle East. As early as 1844 Arthur Anderson invented deep-sea cruising, and by the 1880s Victorian doctors had no hesitation in prescribing health-giving sea voyages. Ahundred years later cruising on P & O;s famous white ships remains an important part of thecompany's activities. In Queen Victoria's age, travelling to Egypt or Aden was exciting enough but it was as the gateway to India and the Far East (especially Hong Kong) that P & O;sname became indelibly imprinted on the minds of Englishmen of every class and fortune, "--Jacket.
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650 0 $aSteamboat lines$zGreat Britain.
650 7 $aSteamboat lines.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01132437
651 7 $aGreat Britain.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01204623
653 $aGreat Britain$aShipping services: P & O Company, to 1986
655 7 $aHistory.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411628
700 1 $aHowarth, Stephen.
700 1 $aKemble, John Haskell,$d1912-1990,$edonor.$5CSmH
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948 $hNO HOLDINGS IN P4A - 197 OTHER HOLDINGS