Rowing Against the Current: On Learning to Scull at Forty - Couverture rigide

Strauss, Barry S.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0684843218 ISBN 13 : 9780684843216

Editeur : Prentice Hall & IBD, 1999

Synopsis

Book by Strauss Barry

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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."

Revue de presse

Victor Davis Hanson, author of Who Killed Homer? Strauss's dogged pursuit of an ancient craft shows us how exhilarating -- and occasionally terrifying -- rowing, past and present, can be.

Jay Parini author of Benjamin's Crossing Sometimes a book takes you by surprise...Rowing Against the Current is written with such a wonderfully physical sense of this ancient sport. This is a story about remaking oneself in middle age; as such it overwhelmed me, as it will a large raft of readers. Bravo to Barry Strauss.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Prentice Hall & IBD
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0684843218
• ISBN 13: 9780684843216
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 175
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible