Procure The Last Amateurs: To Hell And Back With The Cambridge Boat Race Crew Published By Mark De Rond Represented In Print

book! enjoyed the story, a little raw for kids but worth reading if you like competition and

sports.
. . Found this book in the OECD office kitchen, With my own bit of rowing history as a student, I really enjoyed the book, It definitely gave me the nervous anticipation before racing when described in the book, Rowing is a mighty sport,

Ill try and watch the Boat Race this year If you like sentences like this one, you will like this book:
"As any oarsman will tell you, there's nothing worse, nothing more humiliating and more sickening, than seeing your crew mates fallen over with exhaustion and yet feeling that you could have pushed harder.
All that remains is for you to live with the guilt, knowing that you let your side down.
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This is a factdriven book, For the emotions, watch the race movie: sitelink youtube. com/watchvYTHNC and sitelink youtube. com/watchvxZP
Three before watching the race on Youtube, four after,
As the Cambridge University Boat Club prepared for theBoat Race, Mark de Rond a Cambridge don and fellow of Darwin College spent a year living the blood, sweat and tears of thestudents risking all for a chance to challenge Oxford.
"The Last Amateurs" is de Rond's intense and deeply personal account of freezing earlymorning training sessions, boozefueled crew 'formals', the tenderness of camaraderie, the pain of selfdoubt, and the tantrums and testosterone of crew members, each set on becoming a Cambridge 'Blue'.
So what does it take to row in a Boat Race In this thrilling book, de Rond delves into the depths of what it means to be a man and the primeval desire to compete.
Told chronologically and driven by the pursuit of the final victory, the result is a breathtaking portrait of a deeply historical race marked by sharp contrasts and one in which every sports person will recognize at least a little of themselves.
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