Devils on the Deep Blue Sea: The Dreams, Schemes & Showdowns That Built America's Cruise-Ship Empires. [1st hardcover].
by Garin, Kristoffer A
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- Hardcover
- first
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- Fine/Fine dj. (Appears never read. Bottom spine corner of book & jacket lightly bumped else a clean/tight/crisp copy: no wri
- ISBN 10
- 0670034185
- ISBN 13
- 9780670034185
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In this terrifically entertaining history, Kristoffer A. Garin chronicles the cruise-ship industry, from its rise in the early sixties, to its explosion in the seventies with the hit show The Love Boat , to the current vicious consolidation wars and brazen tax dodges. Entrepreneurial genius and bare-knuckle 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. A colorful and compelling behind-the-scenes narrative, Devils on the Deep Blue Sea is a definitive look at the industry and its robber barons who created floating empires.
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- Title
- Devils on the Deep Blue Sea: The Dreams, Schemes & Showdowns That Built America's Cruise-Ship Empires. [1st hardcover].
- Author
- Garin, Kristoffer A
- Format/Binding
- HARDCOVER.
- Book 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 10
- 0670034185
- ISBN 13
- 9780670034185
- Publisher
- Viking.
- Place of Publication
- New York.
- Date Published
- (c2005).
- Pages
- xvi. + 366pp.
- Keywords
- Nautical Maritime Ocean Cruise Ship History Economics Mergers Carnival Cruise Line Royal Caribbean Princess Norwegian Line Holland America
- Size
- Octavo. (8vo.)
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