Standing out from dozens of cookie-cutter contemporaries, Queen Mary 2 is not a cruise ship but a veritable ocean liner. Embark with maritime historian John Maxtone-Graham and photographer Harvey Lloyd for an evocative story of this vessel. Meet the owners and managers, the naval architect, the designers, and the master; relish the story of Samuel Cunard and his pioneering steamers; savor every phase of QMs's construction within Alstom Chantiers de L'Atlantique at St Nazaire. QM2 boasts almost every superlative: the longest, broadest and tallest passenger vessel ever built for its time, displacing a record 150,000 tons. Such a creation deserves documentation and, throughout the pages of Queen Mary 2, the reader will find not merely hype but genuine hyperbole. The binding in sound and all pages in very good condition. However, the black hard cover outer surface is badly disfigured from damp. This has stained the inside of the dust jacket, which is also marked and frayed along the edges