| The Golden Pastime: A New History of Yachting (A Nautical Quarterly Book) |  | Author: John Rousmaniere
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 1567668
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st ed
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
ISBN: 0393033171
Dewey Decimal Number: 797.109
EAN: 9780393033175
ASIN: 0393033171
Publication Date: November 1986
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A well-written social history of yachting rings out the era September 21, 2005
This is primarily a social history of the sport and pastime of yachting, giving us a picture of the colorful personalities who created the emblematic myth of the "yacht" from the English aristocracy of the 18th century through the American millionaires of the Gilded Age. Rousmaniere is no snob, but he grasps the essential fact that racing disposable fiberglass dinghies owned by corporations and piloted by working-class mercenaries is not "yachting", that the word once connected to a view of life and wealth that is no longer with us and needs to be explained. The biographies are well done and sympathetic to all their subjects, the illustrations are lavish and beautiful, and the contents form a near-perfect complement to Douglas Phillips-Birt's 1974 "History of Yachting", which is written from the point of view of a naval engineer looking at the development of the yacht as a vessel type. The last few chapters of the book trace the devolution of "yachting" into a mere sporting exercise, culminating in the loss of America's Cup by millionaire-racers Turner and Connor to corporate syndicates which can be said, like the Sack of Rome, to mark the end of "Yachting" as an idea.
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