[Get free] Gordon Bennett and the First Yacht Race Across the Atlantic
✿ Sam Jefferson ✿
| #1829885 in Books | imusti | 2016-04-26 | 2016-04-26 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 238.00 x1.08 x6.28l,.0 | File Name: 1472916735 | 288 pages | Adlard Coles Nautical Press
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| yet in general a few more references would have made the book a better historical account|By Doug Olcott|Though the main subject of the book was Gordon Bennett it recounts that my ancestor Leonard Jerome came up with the idea for the race over drinks at the NY Yacht Club with the three boat owners, to settle the question of which kind of boat would be the fastest, and who trav||"If this book is any indication of the quality of his other works, I’m looking forward to reading more from Sam Jefferson." ―Good Old Boat|About the Author|Sam Jefferson is a journalist and maritime
The 1866 transatlantic yacht race was a match that saw three yachts battle their way across the Atlantic in the dead of winter in pursuit of a $90,000 prize. Six men died in the brutal contest, and it changed the perception of yachting from a gentleman's pursuit into something more rugged and adventurous. The race also heralded the beginning of America's "gilded age" (the $90,000 prize is approximately $15 million in today's currency).
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