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The Rowing Life: Rivers, Crews, Pain, and the Rhythm of the Boat
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Publisher: Publishdrive
Pages: 286
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Rowing Life: Rivers, Crews, Pain, and the Rhythm of the Boat is a clear, engaging, plain-English journey into one of the world's most demanding and quietly beautiful sports. From school crews and university boathouses to Olympic lanes, club regattas, head races, masters rowing, women's rowing, coxing, training, injuries, access, tradition, and the future of the sport, this book explains why rowing holds such lasting power over the people who enter a boat.
Written for general readers, sports fans, rowers, parents, students, coaches, and anyone curious about the culture of rivers and crews, it explores rowing not only as competition, but as a way of life built around discipline, rhythm, teamwork, pain, weather, water, and trust. It looks at the beauty of a boat moving well while also examining the costs, pressures, inequalities, and responsibilities that come with the sport.
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