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Grand Ambition
G. Bruce Knecht, former reporter for TheWall Street Journaland author of The Proving Ground and Hooked, describes the creation of an outsized yacht in a sweeping narrative centered on the men and women who made it happen. Doug Von Allmen, a self-made man who grew up in a landlocked state dreaming of the ocean, was poised to build a 187-foot yacht that would cost $40 million. Lady Linda would not be among the very largest of the burgeoning fleet of oceangoing palaces, but Von Allmen vowed that it would be the best one ever made in the United States. Nothing would be ordinary. The interior walls would be made from rare species of burl wood, the floors paved with onyx and exotic types of marble...
Grand Ambition
Tells the story of Doug Von Allmen's plan to build an extraordinary yacht and the way that the 2008 financial crisis threatened the project and the livelihood of the one thousand employees of the shipyard where it was built.
Hooked
This modern pirate yarn has all the makings of a great true adventure tale and explores the ways our culinary tastes have all manner of unintended consequences for the world around us. Hooked tells the story of the poaching of the Patagonian toothfish (known to Americans as "Chilean Sea Bass") and is built around the pursuit of the illegal fishing vessel Viarsa by an Australian patrol boat, Southern Supporter, in one of the longest pursuits in maritime history. Author G. Bruce Knecht chronicles how an obscure fish merchant in California "discovered" and renamed the fish, kicking off a worldwide craze for a fish no one had ever heard of and everyone had to have. With demand exploding, pirates were only too happy to satisfy our taste for Chilean Sea Bass. From the world's most treacherous waters to its most fabulous kitchens, Hooked is at once a thrilling tale and a revelatory popular history that will appeal to a diverse group of readers. Think The Hungry Ocean meets Kitchen Confidential.
The Proving Ground
'The Proving Ground' is the story of the 1998 Sydney to Hobart boat race. By focusing on a handful of yachts and those who crewed them, Knecht recreates those dramatic hours and the fear of those caught in the storm, battling for their lives.
Hooked
From the world's most treacherous waters to its most fabulous kitchens, this is a thrilling tale of the Australian Customs Service pursuit of high seas poachers. One of the longest and most dangerous chases in maritime history covers 3900 nautical miles through snowstorms, icebergs and the worst of the Roaring Forties, in an effort to stop the over-fishing of the extraordinary Patagonian Toothfish.
The Proving Ground
The worst disaster in recent ocean racing history began on Boxing Day 1998, a perfect summer day on Sydney Harbour. Soon, the competitors would be battered by hurricane-force winds and 25-metre waves. The author recreates the disaster from interviews with survivors including Lachlan Murdoch.
The Proving Ground
A gripping account of the 1998 Sydney to Hobart race describes how the annual sailing competition became one of the worst modern sailing disasters that left six sailors dead and a number of yachts destroyed and profiles the special individuals who risk their lives at sea, including Oracle founder Larry Ellison. Reprint.
The Proving Ground
The waters between Sydney and Hobart are famously treacherous. No one is fooled by the clear skies.
The Comeback
Larry Ellison had poured more than $200 million into his latest America's Cup campaign, but Oracle Team USA was down 1-8. New Zealand needed just one more win. Oracle ultimately beat back the odds. But how? No one knew until G. Bruce Knecht wrote The Comeback, his pulse-pounding, revelation-filled account of the team's desperate stop-at-nothing campaign.
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