Naval historian John Maxtone-Graham, whose "books and shipboard lectures evoked the lost glamour of trans-Atlantic ocean liners" and who "made hundreds of crossings (16 in 2005 alone), spending more time at sea than on land," died Monday, the New York Times reported. He was 85. Maxtone-Graham wrote about 30 books, including The Only Way to Cross, Liners to the Sun, Titanic Tragedy: A New Look at the Lost Liner, Normandie: France's Legendary Art Deco Ocean Liner, and France/Norway: France's Last Liner/ Norway's First Mega Cruise Ship.
