Rowing Against the Current: On Learning to Scull at Forty (New

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Rowing Against the Current: On Learning to Scull at Forty (New York)
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In the midst of the standard, dreary midlife crisis -- complete with wine-tasting courses, yoga classes, and a failed attempt at a first novel -- forty-year-old Barry Strauss falls unexpectedly and passionately in love with rowing, a sport in which a twenty-seven-year-old is a has-been.
Strauss, a professor of classics and history, 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 finds 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."
Country USA
Brand Scribner Book Company
Manufacturer Touchstone
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780684863306
Model 9780684863306
ReleaseDate 2001-04-17
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780684863306

Country	USA
Brand	Scribner Book Company
Manufacturer	Touchstone
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780684863306
Model	9780684863306
ReleaseDate	2001-04-17
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780684863306

Rowing Against the Current: On Learning to Scull at Forty (New York)

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