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Rowing Against the Current
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Description
Strauss, a classics professor, writes about the unanticipated delights of an affair that, like so many others, begins as a casual dalliance and develops into a full-blown obsession. Drawn to the sport in part because of his affinity for Greek antiquity, he develops a love for old boathouses, a longing for rivers at dawn, a thirst to test himself, and, ultimately, a renewed sense of self-reliance -- as someone who had experienced sports humiliation as far back as Little League suddenly find himself bursting into athleticism at an unlikely age.
From the awe-inspiring feats of the war-bound Greek triremes with their crews of 172 men rowing on three levels to the solitary pride of finishing a first race in which he gets stuck in the weeds and has to be fished out, Barry Strauss shows us why "there is nothing -- absolutely nothing -- half as much worth doing as simply messing about in boats."
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
176
Release Date:
2001-04-17
Publication Date:
2001-04-01
Publisher:
Scribner
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
0684863308
ISBN13:
9780684863306
Weight:
257 g
Height:
140 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
11 cm
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