The Challenge (1987)

Format: Hardcover

ISBN: 0688071120

Condition: Very Good

The dust jacket has a tear at the bottom, and a few pages have small wrinkles at the bottom corner. The book has a slight amount of shelf wear.

Contents Description:

In the mid-nineteenth century an exuberant, expanding America took the lead as a maritime power thanks to the clipper ship. A.B.C. Whipple has written an authoritative popular account of the ear - at once the most paradoxical, colorful, and fleeting in our nation's history. - from the inside flap