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 shines on the Canadian dime to this day.
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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 shines on the Canadian dime to this day.
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Seller's Description:
Very good in very good dust jacket. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket, very small remainder dot on bottom edge, bright, square, tight, packaged carefully and shipped promptly with tracking-and thank you-1214. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 250 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade.
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Fine in Fine jacket. 4to-over 9¾-12" tall. (CAD) 1st printing. No Markings, Fine in Fine dust jacket. Hardcover, 250pp, index, monochrome photos. From the Dj: On October 22, 1921, the American fishing schooner Elsie, just arrived from Gloucester, Massachusetts, lined up in Halifax Harbour beside a new, untested schooner from Lunenburg, ready to race over a 40-mile ocean course. The Elsie's skipper had beaten a Canadian boat decisively the previous year to win the first International Fishermen's Cup race. The new challenger was the Bluenose, set to begin a series of heated and often acrimonious races over the following two decades that left her bruised but unbowed, turning her into an icon whose image still shines on the Canadian dime more than eighty years later. (3.2 JM LVR 205/2.
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Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1553651618. Stiff unmarked book, about new but for tiny nick to lower edge; in crisp dust jacket.; 10.2 X 8.7 X 0.9 inches; 256 pages.
