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Silja Line and Tallink are two of the worlds best-known ferry companies. This book gathers together for the first time in English their entire histories, from humble beginnings with small steamers to the leisure-oriented cruise ferries of today.

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Kalle Id was first subjected the common Finnish pastime the ferry cruise at the impressionable age of one. He witnessed both the last years of the Baltic Sea ferry industry's 1980s boom and the subsequent bust. Consequently, passenger-shipping and ferries in particular have become his life-long interests. Kalle is a graduate of the University of Helsinki with a Master's Degree in history. His Master's Thesis, written in 2012, deals with the attempts by Finnish shipping companies to run cruise lines on the international market in the 1960s and 1970s. Today he works as a freelance maritime journalist and photographer, contibuting to online and print publications in both Finnish and English. Silja Line from De Samseglande to Tallink is Kalle's first book. He lives in Helsinki, Finland with his wife and cat.

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