Rowing Against the Current

On Learning to Scull at Forty

Autor: Barry Strauss

Jazyk:

Vazba: Brožovaná

Vydavatel: Simon & Schuster

Dostupnost: Skladem u dodavatele

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In the midst of the standard dreary midlife crisis -- complete with wine tasting courses, yoga class...

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Autor

Barry Strauss

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Brožovaná

Vydáno

2001

Stránek

176

EAN

9780684863306

ISBN

0684863308

Enbook ID

04112892

Vydavatel

Simon & Schuster

Hmotnost

178

Rozměry

216 x 141 x 18

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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 -- 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. 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."

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