"Ocean travel." . . "Steamboat lines Australia History." . . "Steamboat lines." . . "New Zealand." . . "Steamboat lines New Zealand History." . . "Australia." . . . . "Pacific Ocean." . . "Ocean liners." . . "Ocean liners Pacific Ocean." . . "Ocean travel History." . . . . "Across the Pacific : Liners from Australia and New Zealand to North America" . . . "Across the Pacific : liners from Australia & New Zealand to North America" . . "Across the Paciific : liners from Australia and New Zealand to North America" . "History" . . . . "Across the Pacific : liners from Australia and New Zealand to North America" . "\"For just over a hundred years there was a regular liner service across the Pacific connecting Australia and New Zealand with the west coast of North America. This book descibes the rather chaotic development of these services into a reliable and successful trade that flourished into the 1970s before the advent of the jumbo-jet led to a rather rapid decline and eventual termination of the trans-Pacific passenger liner.\"--Back cover." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "\"For just over a hundred years there was a regular liner service across the Pacific connecting Australia and New Zealand with the west coast of North America. This book descibes the rather chaotic development of these services into a reliable and successful trade that flourished into the 1970s before the advent of the jumbo-jet led to a rather rapid decline and eventual termination of the trans-Pacific passenger liner.\"--Back cover." . . . "Across the Pacific liners from Australia and New Zealand to North America" .