First published: 20021 languageISBN: 9780743235167
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.