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M815:
Eastbound Transatlantic
28 April 2008 - 4 May 2008
Queen Mary 2 - 6 nights
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QM2 Cunard Insights™
2 Programmes available.
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Michael Mondavi
Meet Michael Mondavi, founder of Folio Wine Company, which he started with his wife, son, and daughter in 2004. As a grower and importer of quality wines from the world's premier wine regions, he also provides sales, marketing and public relations services to wine brands from California, Italy, Spain, Argentina, New Zealand and Austria. Michael also co-founded the Robert Mondavi Winery with his father Robert in 1966.
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Dr. Susan Humphris
Dr. Susan Humphris is a Senior Scientist and Chair of the Geology and Geophysics Department at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, USA. She studies hot springs on the deep ocean floor, and has authored or co-authored more than 70 scientific papers. She has been to sea numerous times on oceanographic research ships, has completed more than 30 dives to the bottom of the ocean in the submersible Alvin, and has used a variety of deep-sea robotic vehicles for her research in the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian and Arctic Oceans. Susan also taught Oceanography to undergraduates both on shore and at sea for 13 years, and worked with grade-school teachers to integrate marine topics into their scientific curricula. She is the co-creator of the highly successful Dive and Discover web site that brings oceanographic expeditions in near real-time to students and the general public.
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Cunard Book Club
1 Programmes available.
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On Chesil Beach, Ian McEwan
Ian McEwan's new novella, On Chesil Beach brilliantly illuminates the collision of sexual longing, deep-seated fears and romantic fantasy in his unforgettable, emotionally engaging new novel. On Chesil Beach. From the precise and intimate depiction of two young lovers eager to rise above the hurts and confusion of the past, to the touching story of how their unexpressed misunderstandings and fears shape the rest of their lives. On Chesil Beach is an extraordinary novel that brilliantly, movingly shows us how the entire course of a life can be changed – by a gesture not made or a word not spoken.
Ian McEwan was born on 21 June in 1948 in Aldershot, Hampshire, England. A student at Sussex University, after graduating, he became the first student on the MA Creative Writing course established at the University of East Anglia by Malcolm Bradbury and Angus Wilson. He is a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Arts, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and was awarded the Shakespeare Prize by the Alfred Toepfer Foundation, Hamburg, in 1999. He was awarded a CBE in 2000. Ian McEwan lives in London. His latest novel is On Chesil Beach (2007), shortlisted for the 2007 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Ian McEwan, the #1 bestselling author of Saturday and Atonement He is currently writing the libretto to For You, a new opera about an ageing conductor/composer, with music by Michael Berkeley.
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