Publisher's Synopsis
This volume builds upon the author's longstanding research about the design history of ferries and their vital contributions to our modern mass culture, involving leisure travel and the rapid distribution of food and commodities. Its scope spans from the earliest train ferries to latter-day cruise ferries and the newest ro-pax vessels. The examples described and contextualised operate in many diverse contexts - Europe, the Americas, Australia, Japan and China. Richly illustrated and fully referenced, it aims to be the definitive work on its subject to date.
