{"product_id":"barry-strauss-rowing-against-the-current-9780684863306","title":"Rowing Against the Current","description":"In the midst of the standard dreary midlife crisis -- complete with wine tasting courses, yoga classes, and a failed attempt at a first novel -- a 40-year-old Barry Strauss falls unexpectedly and passionately in love with rowing, a sport in which a 27-year-old is a has been. \n\u003cbr\u003e\nStrauss, 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.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nFrom 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.\"","brand":"Scribner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53914375586134,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/barry-strauss-rowing-against-the-current-9780684863306","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}