| Publisher: | Pan Books |
| Genres: | Biography: General Books, Political & Military Books, Autobiography: Sport, Water Sports & Recreations |
| Authors: | Daniel James Brown |
| Pages: | 404 pages |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| ISBN10: | 1447210980 |
| ISBN13: | 9781447210986 |
| Tags: | Biography: General Books, Political & Military Books, Autobiography: Sport Books, Water Sports & Recreations, Free Books Download, epub Books Download |
| Language: | en |
| Physical Form: | eBook |
| Type: | ePUB |
Cast aside by his family at an early age, abandoned and left to fend for himself in the woods of Washington State, young Joe Rantz turns to rowing as a way of escaping his past. What follows is an extraordinary journey, as Joe and eight other working-class boys exchange the sweat and dust of life in 1930s America for the promise of glory at the heart of Hitler's Berlin.
Stroke by stroke, a remarkable young man strives to regain his shattered self-regard, to dare again to trust in others and to find his way back home. Told against the backdrop of the Great Depression, The Boys in the Boat is narrative non-fiction of the first order; a personal story full of lyricism and unexpected beauty that rises above the grand sweep of history, and captures instead the purest essence of what it means to be alive.
