Devils on the Deep Blue Sea The Dreams, Schemes and Showdowns That Built America's Cruise-Ship Empires Hardback - 2005
by Kristoffer A. Garin
Left for dead after the advent of cheap, reliable air travel forty years ago, cruise shipping in the decades since has been reborn as a $12 billion industry on the cutting edge of twenty-first century global capitalism. Today, nearly ten million Americans take cruises each year, sailing to exotic destinations on floating cities that can cost upwards of $600 million each to construct.
In this terrifically entertaining history, Kristoffer A. Garin chronicles the industry's rise from humble and comic beginnings in the early sixties through waterfront corruption and the incalculably huge impact of the hit television series The Love Boat in the seventies and eighties to the recent consolidation wars. Entrepreneurial genius and bareknuckle capitalism mate with cultural kitsch as the cruise lines dodge U.S. tax, labor, and environmental laws to make unimaginable profits while bringing the world a new form of leisure. Few businesses in America today are as colorful, lucrative, and innovative as cruise shipping, and Devils on the Deep Blue Sea is the first book to give readers a compelling behind-the-scenes look into these floating empires and the modern-day robber barons who shaped them.
First line
Morning, near America.
Details
- Title Devils on the Deep Blue Sea The Dreams, Schemes and Showdowns That Built America's Cruise-Ship Empires
- Author Kristoffer A. Garin
- Binding Hardback
- Edition 1st
- Pages 366
- Language EN
- Publisher Viking Adult, New York
- Date June 23, 2005
- ISBN 9780670034185
More Copies for Sale
Devils on the Deep Blue Sea: The Dreams, Schemes and Showdowns That Built America's Cruise-Ship Empires
by Garin, Kristoffer A
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 13
- 9780670034185
- ISBN 10
- 0670034185
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Eugene , Oregon, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$10.27NZ$6.84 shipping to USA
Show Details
Devils on the Deep Blue Sea: The Dreams, Schemes and Showdowns That Built America's Cruise-Ship Empires
by Kristoffer A. Garin
- Used
- Condition
- Used - Good
- ISBN 13
- 9780670034185
- ISBN 10
- 0670034185
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Frederick, Maryland, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$10.27NZ$6.84 shipping to USA
Show Details
Devils on the Deep Blue Sea : The Dreams, Schemes, and Showdowns That Built America's Cruise-Ship Empires
by Kristoffer Garin
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 13
- 9780670034185
- ISBN 10
- 0670034185
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Seattle, Washington, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$11.09FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Devils on the Deep Blue Sea: The Dreams, Schemes and Showdowns That Built America's Cruise-Ship Empires
by Garin, Kristoffer A.
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 13
- 9780670034185
- ISBN 10
- 0670034185
- Quantity Available
- 4
- Seller
-
Seattle, Washington, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$11.09FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Devils on the Deep Blue Sea : The Dreams, Schemes, and Showdowns That Built America's Cruise-Ship Empires
by Kristoffer Garin
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 13
- 9780670034185
- ISBN 10
- 0670034185
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Seattle, Washington, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$11.09FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Devils on the Deep Blue Sea: The Dreams, Schemes and Showdowns That Built America's Cruise-Ship Empires
by Kristoffer A. Garin
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 13
- 9780670034185
- ISBN 10
- 0670034185
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
HOUSTON, Texas, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$14.42FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Devils on the Deep Blue Sea : The Dreams, Schemes, and Showdowns That Built America's Cruise-Ship Empires
by Garin, Kristoffer
- Used
- Condition
- Used - Good
- ISBN 13
- 9780670034185
- ISBN 10
- 0670034185
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Seller
-
Mishawaka, Indiana, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$15.62FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Devils on the Deep Blue Sea: The Dreams, Schemes and Showdowns That Built America's Cruise-Ship Empires
by Garin, Kristoffer A.
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used - Fine+ in Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 13
- 9780670034185
- ISBN 10
- 0670034185
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$32.58NZ$6.00 shipping to USA
Show Details
Devils on the Deep Blue Sea: The Dreams, Schemes and Showdowns that built American's Cruise-Ship Empire
by Garin, Kristoffer A.
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 13
- 9780670034185
- ISBN 10
- 0670034185
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Middlebury, Vermont, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$32.58NZ$8.57 shipping to USA
Show Details
Devils on the Deep Blue Sea: The Dreams, Schemes & Showdowns That Built America's Cruise-Ship Empires. [1st hardcover].
by Garin, Kristoffer A.
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used - Fine/Fine dj. (Appears never read. Bottom spine corner of book & jacket lightly bumped else a clean/tight/crisp copy: no wri
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 13
- 9780670034185
- ISBN 10
- 0670034185
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Beverly Hills, Florida, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$34.29NZ$8.57 shipping to USA