The Delius Klasing Verlag, together with the Heymann bookstore, offers a unique experience: During a boat tour of the harbor, the berth "Peking" on the Bremer Kai is headed for.
The book authors, photographer Heiner Müller-Elsner and Peter-Matthias Gaede, the former editor-in-chief of "Geo", are on board and give sailing fans and maritime lovers an insight into a piece of shipping history and present their book project.
The jewelry box contains the book and a deck piece
Such a deck piece is in every jewelry box
Participants have the opportunity to have one of the limited editions of 1,000 copies signed during the event. Each copy comes with an original cover from the "Peking". It was one of those parts of the main deck that were replaced with new steel plates during the restoration. Each of these 1,000 deck pieces has been certified by the project controller Joachim Kaiser, who was responsible for the retrieval from New York and the restoration. Meeting: Tuesday, September 8, 2020 at 7:00 p.m. (boarding from 6:00 p.m.) MS Commodore / Barkassen-Meyer St. Pauli Landungsbrücken, Bridge 7-10 20359 Hamburg Tickets for € 23 (including a welcome drink) are available here: bit.ly/peking-buchevent
Background:
The "Peking" was one of the largest and fastest sailing ships in the world around 1912 - now, after several years of restoration, she is returning to her former home port of Hamburg. A team of reporters talk about their time on the oceans. And of their new shine.
Almost 110 years after her launch, the "Peking" - once part of a legendary fleet of tall ships in service with the Hamburg shipping company Ferdinand Laeisz - will dock in the Hanseatic city forever in September 2020 and be open to visitors. The Hamburg photographer Heiner Müller-Elsner followed the work on the four-master exclusively for three years. His pictures show how a wreck that was threatened with scrapping became the highlight of the newly emerging German Harbor Museum.
Peter-Matthias Gaede and Michael Schaper, long-time editors-in-chief of "Geo" and "Geo Epoche", reconstruct the history of the sailing ship and tell of the time when daring captains and their crews sailed from Hamburg around the storm-lashed Cape Horn to Chile to load the coveted saltpetre there. The "Peking" has survived hurricanes, economic crises, sea blockades and two world wars.