A Race for Real Sailors The Bluenose and the International Fisherman's Cup, 1920-1938 |
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| Author:
| McLaren, Keith |
| Foreword by:
| Cameron, Silver Donald |
| ISBN: | 978-1-56792-313-1 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2006 |
| Publisher: | David R. Godine Publisher
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $40.00 |
Book Description:
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Exhaustively researched in archives in both the U. S. and Canada, A Race for Real Sailors is a vibrant history of the Fishermen's Cup series, which dominated sporting headlines between the two world wars. Here are the incidents and drama of each race and the almost living personalities of the schooners that contested them: the Delawana and the Esperanto, the Columbia and the Gertrude L. Thebaud, and dominating them all the Bluenose, the big brute from Lunenburg whose image...
More DescriptionExhaustively researched in archives in both the U. S. and Canada, A Race for Real Sailors is a vibrant history of the Fishermen's Cup series, which dominated sporting headlines between the two world wars. Here are the incidents and drama of each race and the almost living personalities of the schooners that contested them: the Delawana and the Esperanto, the Columbia and the Gertrude L. Thebaud, and dominating them all the Bluenose, the big brute from Lunenburg whose image shines on the Canadian dime to this day.