Books About Rowing

Yankeerunner · Post by **Yankeerunner** » June 16th, 2008, 8:35 am

I thought that we already had a thread about this, but I can't seem to find it. If someone can locate it feel free to copy and paste this to it so that we have everything in one place.

I have just finished the Gerard D'Aboville book, Alone, recommended by Bob Spenger. Excellent read and quick at only 167 pages. I got it from my local library and noticed in the online catalog that there was another book that he has written a forward for, about a woman who rowed across the Atlantic, Across The Savage Sea by Maud Fontenoy I'll be requesting that one next:
http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip05 ... 23459.html

First up though, for Father's Day I received a gift of my own copy of Rob Slocum's In The Sky: A Fantasia About rowing. Slocum's name was one of the first to stick in my brain when I started erging because he had recently done a great erg marathon that impressed me.
http://www.allbookstores.com/book/97814 ... e_Sky.html

Both should also be quick reads at 149 pages and 150 pages.

still33 · Post by **still33** » July 3rd, 2008, 5:20 pm

Just read "Assault on Lake Casitas" by Brad Lewis. Great story of his arduous journey culminating in a gold medal in the '84 Olympics. Available through Amazon.

Also read "Rowing Against the Current:On Learning to Scull at Forty" by Barry Strauss. Also part of what motivated me take lessons to both sweep row and scull, at over fifty.

"Rowing to Latitude:Journeys Alomg the Arctics Edge" by Jill Fredston is a different sort of rowing book but quite interesting.

Anyone else have favorites and/or feedback?

Nosmo · Post by **Nosmo** » July 3rd, 2008, 6:22 pm

Read "Assault on Lake Casitas" a couple of times.

Not rowing but one of the best sports books I've read is Lynn Cox's "Swimming to Antarctica". She has done things no one else is ever likely to do. She also wrote a sweet little book called "Grayson" about finding a lost baby whale following her on an ocean swim and then trying to reunite it with its mother.

sledgehammer · Post by **sledgehammer** » July 3rd, 2008, 9:34 pm

My favorites...

- The Amateurs: The Story of Four Young Men and Their Quest for an Olympic Gold Medal by David Halberstam

- The Red Rose Crew: A True Story of Women, Winning, and the Water by Daniel J. Boyne and David Halberstam

- Wanted:Rowing Coach by Brad Alan Lewis

- The Shell Game: Reflections on Rowing and the Pursuit of Excellence by Stephen Kiesling

- Beyond the Horizon: The Great Race to Finish the First Human-Powered Circumnavigation of the Planet by Colin Angus

BrianStaff · Post by **BrianStaff** » July 4th, 2008, 6:34 pm

Two books just recently recommended to me:

The Red Rose Crew by Daniel J. Boyne who also wrote Essential Sculling

Mind Over Water by Craig Lambert - lessons on life from the art of rowing.

Brian

Kinley · Post by **Kinley** » July 9th, 2008, 6:42 pm

I'm partial to Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome.