Twenty-Five Years before the Mast

Download or read book Twenty-Five Years before the Mast written by Peter Longley and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-11-06 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating study encompassing a period of rapid growth and change, a cruise director looks back over a career that spanned twenty-five years on some of the best-known luxury ships of the second half of the twentieth century, including ten years aboard Cunard’s famous ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2. Peter Longley fell into the industry by accident in 1978, at a time when it could be said that cruising was exclusively for the rich and famous. Longley traces this form