Dimensions
274 x 390 x 33mm
This book spans a hundred years of the finest racing yachts. Artistically it is unique, a photographic collection that has no equal. Keith and Kenneth Beken have chosen these photographs from an archive of black-and-white plates and prints that number more than 75,000. Keith Beken has written the detailed captions to the photographs and Kenneth an appendix on the tools of their trade.
The publishers have had it as their aim to create the finest book on sailing ships that it is possible in this age to create. The deep love of all manner of sailing ships and of the sea will be shared by sailing folk the world over.
