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

Strauss, Barry

 
9780684863306: Rowing Against the Current: On Learning to Scull at Forty (New York)
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ISBN 10: 0684863308 ISBN 13: 9780684863306
Editorial: Scribner, 2001

Sinopsis

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."

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Acerca del autor

Barry Strauss is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, the Bryce and Edith M. Bowmar Professor in Humanistic Studies Emeritus at Cornell University, and a leading expert on ancient military history. He has written or edited several books, including The Battle of Salamis, The Trojan War, The Spartacus War, Masters of Command, The Death of Caesar, and Ten Caesars. Visit BarryStrauss.com.

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Editorial
Scribner
Año de publicación
2001
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0684863308
ISBN 13 
9780684863306
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
176
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9780684843216: Rowing against the Current: On Learning to Scull at Forty

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ISBN 10:  0684843218 ISBN 13:  9780684843216
Editorial: Prentice Hall & IBD, 1999
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