New History of Yachting Bender Mike
An overview of the history of yachting in its social, cultural, political and economic contexts.Shortlisted for the Maritime Foundation's Mountbatten Award 2018This book, by a leading expert in the…
Specifikacia New History of Yachting Bender Mike
An overview of the history of yachting in its social, cultural, political and economic contexts.Shortlisted for the Maritime Foundation's Mountbatten Award 2018This book, by a leading expert in the field, is the first major history of yachting for over a quarter of a century. Setting developments within political, social and economic changes, the book tells the story of yachting from Elizabethan times to the present day: the first uses of yachts, by monarchs, especially Charles II; yacht clubs and yacht racing in the eighteenth century; the early years of the Royal Yacht Squadron at Cowes and an analysis of the America Cup challenges; the pioneering developments in Ireland and the exporting of yachting to the colonies and trading outposts of the Empire; the expansion of yachting in Victorian times; the Golden Age of Yachting in the years before the First World War, when it
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