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Rowing Against the Current: On Learning to Scull at FortyIn 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
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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Published: 04/17/2001
ISBN: 9780684863306
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.54h x 5.58w x 0.45d
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