America's Victory
Subtitle: The Heroic Story of a Team of Ordinary Americans-- and How They Won the Greatest Yacht Race Ever
Publisher: Free Press
Published: December 24, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780743235167
Subjects: Sports - General; Sailing - General; Biography & Autobiography; Sports & Recreation; Biography/Autobiography; Yacht racing; Biography: sport; Sailing; Sports & Recreation / Sailing; America's Cup; 19th century; America (Yacht); History
First sentence: An unusually light and warm southwesterly wind for mid-February stirred the stands of dune grass on New Jersey's barrier islands.
Description: In 1850 a brilliant young boat designer and an unlikely team of men faced the might and arrogance of the British empire in a yacht race for the Great Exhibition. The schooner America set sail against the world's greatest maritime power at a turning point in the growth of a young nation's confidence that is also the story of the American spirit that lives on today.