Mike Bender
New History of Yachting Hardback Book
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An overview of the history of yachting in its social, cultural, political and economic contexts. Shortlisted for the Maritime Foundations Mountbatten Award 2018 This 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 was the sport of the crowned heads of Europe the invention of the dinghy and the keelboat classes and, after the Second World War, the massive numbers of homebuilt dinghies the breaking of new boundaries by risktaking singlehanders from the mid1960s the expansion of leisure sailing that came in the 1980s with the use of moulded plastic yachts and current trends and pressures within the sport. Wellreferenced yet highly readable, this book will be of interest both to the scholar and the sailing enthusiast. MIKE BENDER is an experienced yachtsman and qualified Ocean Yachtmaster, with some forty thousand miles,...
Binding: Hardback;462 pages; Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd; Classification: HBTM; Weight: 1004 g; Dimensions: 161 x 238 x 30
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An overview of the history of yachting in its social, cultural, political and economic contexts. Shortlisted for the Maritime Foundations Mountbatten Award 2018 This 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 was the sport of the crowned heads of Europe the invention of the dinghy and the keelboat classes and, after the Second World War, the massive numbers of homebuilt dinghies the breaking of new boundaries by risktaking singlehanders from the mid1960s the expansion of leisure sailing that came in the 1980s with the use of moulded plastic yachts and current trends and pressures within the sport. Wellreferenced yet highly readable, this book will be of interest both to the scholar and the sailing enthusiast. MIKE BENDER is an experienced yachtsman and qualified Ocean Yachtmaster, with some forty thousand miles,...
Binding: Hardback;462 pages; Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd; Classification: HBTM; Weight: 1004 g; Dimensions: 161 x 238 x 30
Extended returns Orders placed after 29th October 2026 can be returned until 5th January 2027
Something not quite right? You have 21 days from the day you receive it, to send something back. When you purchase Debenhams Deliver+, you will have an extra 14 days on top of our standard 21-day window to initate a return.
Please note, we cannot offer refunds on fashion face masks, cosmetics, pierced jewellery, adult toys, and swimwear or lingerie if the hygiene seal is not in place or has been broken.
Items of footwear and/or clothing must be unworn and unwashed with the original labels attached. Also, footwear must be tried on indoors. Items of homeware including bedlinen, mattresses, and toppers, and pillows must be unused and in their original unopened packaging. This does not affect your statutory rights.
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Mike Bender
New History of Yachting Hardback Book
“Refund was approved and back in my account the same day.” - Deliver+ customer
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