Going Bananas

Goldberg, Mark H.: I, 1993 New York, softcover 606 pages, with photos and large historical fleet list. American Merchant Marine History Series volume III. Going Bananas: 100 Years of American Fruit Ships in the Caribbean by Mark H. Goldberg is a richly illustrated maritime history of the United Fruit Company’s “Great White Fleet” and other banana carriers, tracing a century of ship design, routes, and operations that connected U.S. ports with Caribbean and Central American plantations. It blends fleet lists, photographs, and wartime episodes, such as losses to U-boats in World War II, with industry lore to document how “banana boats” became synonymous with fast, specialized cargo liners in the region’s trade networks. ISBN 1879180018 In very good condition