Cruising in the Caronia is a Way of Life… (2)
The 1959 Great World Cruise Brochure continues…
A world of people… every city street, every by-way, every country lane offers its study in human nature…
the unworldly charm of the natives on Tristan da Cunha, starved for contact with the outside world, waiting
with a pathetic eagerness for the yearly call of the Caronia… the shy, but candid appraisal of the African
natives, as curious about your silks and nylons as you are about their paints and elaborate tribal ornaments…
The seething, milling, toiling human ant-hill of India, where every village crossroads is as chocked with human traffic as 42nd Street and Broadway… the stoic attitude of the Singapore Malayans, who never betray an emotion by so much as a brief smile… the sweet and childlike humility of the Buddhist Thai… the ebullient happiness of the Hawaiian… perfectly in tune with his paradisaical island in the tropical sun.
A world of places… every facet of your itinerary has been prepared with the same expert touch and fine care a diamond cutter uses to bring out the brilliance of a perfect stone. Because you sail in January, you immediately head for the sunshine warmth of the south… to Curaçao, Recife and Rio de Janeiro… then across the South Atlantic, headed for Africa.
You continue to follow the perfect weather around the globe, but in addition, your cruise route has been developed to provide subtle contrasts… the ideal pacing that brings both refreshment and excitement. Between the great continents of Africa and India lie three lovely tropical ports… Zanzibar and Mombasa, murky pages from a slave-trading past, and the Seychelles Islands, a spice-scented lyric dreamland.
The route through the Orient is comprehensive and leisurely… Singapore and Bangkok, a fantastic fairyland of oddly-shaped and gem-encrusted Buddhist temples… the Philippines and Okinawa, focus of American attention all through the war in the Pacific…
Hong Kong, an amazing tax-free port where Chinese merchants barter goods from all over the World… Japan in cherry blossom time, symbolised by Mount Fuji rising in the morning mists. Home again across the Pacific to the West Coast, Mexico and the Canal Zone, arriving in New York on the crest of Spring.
A world of things… of souvenirs and trinkets… of precious gems and brocaded silks… of curios and exquisite art objects.
- Hong Kong is the mecca for the bargain hunter, for carved chests and ivory, for jewels and tailored-while-you-wait clothes;
- in Ceylon you will find the most perfect rubies;
- the Thieves Market in Bangkok will dazzle you with its wares;
- India offers its rich silks and madras;
- Japan its handpainted lacquerware, scrolls, porcelain and pearls;
- Africa its skins and carvings;
In the fashionable stores of the cosmopolitan cities… in the bazaars and tiny shops of the islands, you will find the handicrafts and masterpieces turned out by the merchants of the world… solid reminders of the people and places on your Caronia Great World Cruise.
If you can contribute any information, do please get in touch…
Henry at Bombay
