Yachting's Golden Age 1880-1905

Name: Yachting's Golden Age 1880-1905
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ISBN: 9780679454885

ISBN-10: 0679454888

ISBN-13: 9780679454885

Edition: N/A

Authors: Ed Holm

List price: $65.00

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More than a hundred breathtaking photographs that transport us back to the lavish, romantic world of sailing and yachting in its heyday at the turn of the century. The pictures -- glass-plate images documenting sail and steam from the earliest days of popular photography in the 1880s up to 1905 -- portray pleasure boats at their most magnificent during the height of the Gilded Age, when the largest and fastest cutters and sloops battled for possession of the world's most coveted sporting trophy, and when every yacht was a one-of-a-kind handcrafted creation with its own personality. We see the Puritan with her breakthrough design (it won the America's Cup) . . . the schooner Casco, which…

Book details

List price: $65.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/12/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 192
Size: 14.00" wide x 11.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 3.982
Language: English