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The cradle of New England's shipping doubled as its casket, earning the sailing route around Cape Cod the nickname of "graveyard of the Atlantic." From the moment sailors began rounding the Cape, they wished they could sail through it instead. Only after three hundred years of wrecked ships and bureaucratic limbo did August Belmont Jr. arrive-financier of New York's legendary subway system; breeder of one of the world's finest horses, Man O' War; and grandson of one of the world's most famous seamen, Commodore Matthew Perry, who opened Japan to the West. J. North Conway plunges into the character of Cape Cod, from its discovery to its chowder, and of the man who managed to cut a path through it.