The Proving Ground
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: April 1, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780446611855
First sentence: PHYSICALLY AND CULTURALLY, the harbor is the center of Sydney, never more so than the day after Christmas, when the start of the 630-mile race from Sydney to Hobart, a city on the east coast of Tasmania, causes it to become an enormous natural amphitheater.