NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD BREMEN
History - Fleet - Ships Mails
volumes I & II
by Edwin Dreschel
We were exceptionally lucky in that we
have been able to purchase the remaining new volumes of Edwin
Drechsel’s legendary Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen: History-Fleet-Ships
Mails Volume I & II and are now offering them for sale.These first edition books are out of print. For many years these books were virtually impossible to find. The few available garnered prices of up to $225.00 per set.
Abandoned by their author, now an old man, the remaining copies of this masterpiece sat in the warehouse of an out-of-business book distributor, in the San Francisco Bay Area. We bought out his entire stock, and are now able to offer these books to the general public until our stock is gone!
Description: New hardbacks published by Cordillera Publishing Company, Vancouver Canada 1994 First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Books are new and in perfect condition. They are illustrated with literally thousands of hard to find photographs and documents, examples of ships postage, vessel launch data and charts. Volume I :ISBN 1-895590-08-6. Foreword by Arnold Kludas. The Lloyd was the largest-ever ocean passenger ship enterprise, and the carrier of more mails, as much as forty percent of those on the North Atlantic, than any other line. Norddeutscher Lloyd of Bremen, Germany brings back historic recollections of one of the most exciting periods in the history of mankind, the era of North Atlantic passenger travel, long before the airlines took over and during the period when the United States was the great melting pot and welcomed the millions who left Europe for a better life in the new promised land. In the period from the middle of the nineteenth century until the end of the first half of the twentieth, shifts in populations were massive. Immigrants came from every land which was a part of the European land mass to escape from persecution and pogroms, diseases and pestilence, wars and politics, under-employment and even starvation. With them they brought rich traditions, great skills, previously unknown religions and an enormous cultural diversity to a land which until then had been largely settled by colonists from the British Isles and some of the countries of Western Europe such as Holland and France. With this as a background the maritime industries of most western European countries flourished. Shipbuilding and ship-owning became major industries. it was n Germany that the two mightiest concerns of all developed. These were Hamburg-Amerika and Norddeutscher Lloyd both of which were to become key instruments of Germany's trade policy and part of the challenge which that country mounted against Britain's maritime supremacy. This book opens the curtain on a way of life which has departed forever. It traces the history of this great concern, its world wide commercial impact and development of communications through ship mails long before the arrival of airmail, the long distance telephone and other modern means of communication.
Volume II:
ISBN 1895590-14-0. Foreword by The Rt. Hon. The Earl Jellicoe. The Lloyd was the largest-ever ocean passenger ship enterprise, and the carrier of more mails, as much as forty percent of those on the North Atlantic, than any other line. The epic of Norddeutscher Lloyd of Bremen, Germany continues in this second volume as a reflection of much which unfolded as part of the troubled history of modern times. By 1920, a prostrate Germany had lost its entire empire of overseas colonies. All but a handful of its large merchant fleet had been turned over to the victorious allies as reparations. It called for a new start as Norddeutscher Lloyd like all other German lines sought to pick up the pieces and reshape itself in the light of a new political and commercial world. This book continues the history to 1970.