... wonderfully readable.

Evans' book is strongest when she discusses the women hired to work aboard the ocean liners.

Siân Evans tells stories of the women who made the crossing and those who took care of them from embarkation on one continent to docking on another.

All in all, Evans writes a compelling account of how ocean travel—for white women, in particular—evolved in concert with women's roles in the cruise industry during the early 20th century.

This is a thoroughly captivating history.

... an entertaining chronicle of transatlantic ocean travel.