Cruise Savvy
An Invaluable Primer for First-Time PassengersBy John Maxtone-Graham
192 pp. 30 b&w photos. 2000. Paperback. $17.95
ISBN 1 57409 071 2
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Seven million Americans happily go cruising each year, yet 45 million could but never do. Cruise Savvy is designed to entice that vast, land-locked majority into coming aboard. Author John Maxtone-Graham – the world's most articulate and entertaining maritime historian – says that the book's specific aim is quite simply “to turn you on to shipboard.”
Cruise Savvy is not a guide, nor does it rank or recommend cruise lines or ships. Rather, it is something far more elusive: a fascinating primer concerning the shipboard experience of yesterday and today. Within its pages can be found everything that a novice passenger needs to know before clambering up the gangway. Topics include itinerary, vessel, cruise duration, what to pack, and what to expect once the whistle blows and the ship sets out to sea. Maxtone-Graham documents cabin mystique, deciphers dining room lore, explores the world of entertainment aboard, investigates excursions ashore, unravels the tipping conundrum, and suggests what to expect (or not expect) from the genial crew members who make these extraordinary voyages possible.
Cruise Savvy is an indispensable volume for all passengers, whether dilettantes or habitués. It provides an illuminating glimpse behind the scenes, from an acknowledged cruising expert with a lively, entertaining style. Superb photos – by both the author and noted marine photographer Barry Winiker – complement the text.
“There is certainly plenty of personal experience packed in this primer for the newcomer to the cruise industry.” —Lloyd's List
“…would make a great companion to a cruise-ship guide.” —Today's Librarian
“…very cosmopolitan, mildly sardonic, and humorous.” —Cruise Industry News Quarterly
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About the Author:
John Maxtone-Graham is a maritime historian, author, and lecturer specializing in the history of ocean liners and cruise ships. He also wrote Liners to the Sun and The Only Way To Cross and edited the bestselling TITANIC Survivor by Violet Jessop.