Ghis Szwed-Truesdale – författare

The world's greatest sailing race shreds the oceans in Clipper Wars' competition for gold, prominence, and revenge.  At the height of the California Gold Rush, the Gant and Briggs families race to the death from New York to San Francisco aboard extreme clipper ships, the largest, fastest sailing ships ever built.  Follows the lives of venal captains, ruthless pirates, and tainted sailors. Calamity and the ultimate prize await the lucky clipper captain who reaches the Golden Gate after a 17,000-mile voyage around treacherous Cape Horn. Which unscrupulous competitors sacrifice everything to win the Clipper Wars.