ROWING AGAINST THE CURRENT: On Learning to Scull at Forty. This item is unavailable.
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Language: English
Published by Scribner (edition First Edition), 1999
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- Title
- ROWING AGAINST THE CURRENT: On Learning to Scull at Forty
- Author
- Strauss, Barry
- Publisher
- Scribner (edition First Edition)
- Publication year
- 1999
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0684843218
- ISBN 13
- 9780684843216
- Edition
- First Edition.
A classics professor who fell in love with the sport of rowing during a typical mid-life crisis attempts to show why, with modern, historical, environmental and personal examples, the river calls to him. 12,500 first printing.
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About the Author
Barry Strauss, professor of history and classics at Cornell University, is a leading expert on ancient military history. He has written or edited several books, including The Trojan War, The Battle of Salamis, and The Spartacus War. He lives in Ithaca, New York.
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