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M821:
Westbound Transatlantic
2 June 2008 - 8 June 2008
Queen Mary 2 - 6 nights
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QM2 Cunard Insights™
2 Programmes available.
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Jerome O'Connor
A professional journalist and the U.S. Naval Institute Author of the Year, Mr. O'Connor specializes in revealing history making and history changing occurrences in publications and through presentations. A dynamic speaker and former actor, he was the first journalist to reveal the existence of five massive former U-boat bases in occupied France during World War Two. In 1978, for the Chicago Tribune, he disclosed the then unknown and intact central London war headquarters of Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Feature articles have appeared in the Chicago Tribune, British Heritage, Naval History, Perspectives, World War Two, and other publications. Mr. O'Connor's best received programmes will be presented on this voyage.
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Barbara Lang
Lang’s thirty year career includes 10 years as a Napa Valley winery culinary director and 18 years as a lecturer in the food and beverage department at Cornell University’s School for Hotel Administration where she developed the first wine and food pairing course for the school’s curriculum. A woman with an entrepreneurial bent, Lang has been a successful restaurateur; culinarian for children; author of the book “From Restaurant to Retail”; columnist of “Cancer Unplugged”, a humorous and honest chronicle of living with colon cancer, as well as a food marketing consultant (RTR Ideas) and frequent speaker on business/dining etiquette for college students. Once described as a blend of Betty Crocker and Bette Midler, Lang’s approach to pairing wine and food is to take the intimidation and stuffiness out of the conversation, making it a fun experience for both the novice and the connoisseur. Lang is an avid triathlete; when she isn’t swimming across a lake, Lang is on the back of a motorcycle, where she has toured the valleys of New England and the Alpine passes of Switzerland.
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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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