The Holland America Line was founded in 1873 and operated a fleet of passenger and cargo vessels from the Netherlands to the east and west coasts of America. The company later acquired the stock of th

David MacBrayne's involvement in West Highland shipping services soon grew to encompass all of the major routes to the Isles. The company was eventually taken into state ownership and amalgamated with

In A Thousand Ships, broadcaster and classicist Natalie Haynes retells the story of the Trojan War from an all-female perspective. This was never the story of one woman, or two. It was the story of all of them. . . In the middle of the night, Creusa wakes to find her beloved Troy engulfed in flames. Ten seemingly endless years of brutal conflict between the Greeks and the Troja...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 乔治·埃德蒙森 英国国教的牧师和牛津大学的学术历史学家，荷兰历史学会荣誉会员，牛津大学福特英国历史讲师。主要出版物有《剑桥现代史》第三卷《荷兰起义》《沉默的威廉》等。

【作者简介】 乔治·埃德蒙森 英国国教的牧师和牛津大学的学术历史学家，荷兰历史学会荣誉会员，牛津大学福特英国历史讲师。主要出版物有《剑桥现代史》第三卷《荷兰起义》《沉默的威廉》等。

The curious and horrid events which took place after the cruise ship Menelaos headed out into the sapphire waters of the Aegean grew from "human motives darker and more complex than the dwelling of the Minotaur", but Nigel Strangeways had no inkling that he was to be drawn into this labyrinth as he watched some of the passengers come aboard at Piraeus: The disturbing widow Meli...(展开全部)

High above the planet Harmony, the Oversoul watches. Its task, programmed so many millennia ago, is to guard the human settlement on this planet—to protect this fragile remnant of Earth from all threats. To protect them, most of all, from themselves. But now the great artificial intelligence is failing. The Oversoul has lost access to some of its memory banks, and some of its p...(展开全部)

This book provides for the first time a complete look at all of Isambard Kingdom Brunel's contributions to the great age of steamship design. From modelling boats as a child to his youthful dreams of

Holland was once a superpower upon whose empire the sun never set. Today it is on the leading edge of social change. This history of Holland, from its earliest beginnings to the present day, provides the most up-to-date survey of modern Dutch history, including the current Dutch approach to a number of social issues, such as the welfare state, the environment, socialized medici...(展开全部)

（英国）山姆·威利斯（Sam Willis） 史学博士，海洋史学家，考古学家。著有《战舰图文史》系列等作品。BBC多部大型系列历史纪录片主持人，历史频道、国家地理频道、发现频道等各类节目的海洋史顾问。英国皇家历史学会（RHS）会士，英国收藏家协会（SA）会员。