America's Victory

America's Victory The Heroic Story of a Team of Ordinary Americans, and How They Won the Greatest Yacht Race Ever

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Publisher's Synopsis

This work recounts the events of the very first America's Cup yacht race, in which a single American team manning the aptly named schooner "America" competed against and bested fourteen British competitors. The narrative of the 1851 race is told from the point of view of the designers and crew of the victorious yacht. Annotation 2004 Book News, Inc

Book information

ISBN: 9780743235167
Publisher: Free Press
Imprint: Free Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 797.14
DEWEY edition: 21
Number of pages: 263
Weight: 544g
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 19mm