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 enlarge | Author: Craig Lambert
Publisher: Mariner Books
Category: Book
List Price: $12.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 259241
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.4 x 0.5
ISBN: 0618001840
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.123092
UPC: 046442001847
EAN: 9780618001842
ASIN: 0618001840
Publication Date: September 7, 1999
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 Educational and Wise November 17, 1998
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I thought Craig's book was a wonderful introduction to the sport of rowing. I am a parent of 3 children who are rowing. The book helped me understand their sport and their passion for it. I also run a business. The book makes wonderful analogies about the application of individual and group efforts to the overall success of any undertaking. Its a great book to pass around the office. Craig is very insightful in this book. After reading it you will want to take up the sport of rowing or at least better understand how the principles learned in rowing can be applied to the rest of your life. The book is short. It can be read quickly. But you will find yourself going back to reread many of the pages.
Entertaining insight into the sport November 13, 1998
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
For someone who has come to the sport of rowing at a relatively late stage, Lambert offers a remarkably perceptive insight into what motivates competitive oarsmen, their fears, aspirations, joys and pain. He elucidates particularly well the different mind-set of the single sculler as against the crew oarsman, demonstrating clearly the existence of a 'sport within a sport'. There have been a number of books on rowing - it is rare and refreshing to find one written by one with journalistic skill.
A book for rowers & Non-rowers--Attention holder November 11, 1998
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Not being a rower and never having been in a racing scull, I did not expect6 this book to hold my attention like it did. I had trouble laying it down. The suspense in the race which Lambert outlines so beautifully held me spellbound. The lessons in life which were outlined were beautifully phrased. I really think this book could be a best seller if it is promoted properly.
 Disappointing How-to Treatise on Living a Self-Absorbed Life October 16, 1998
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Though drawn to Lambert's book as an amateur sculler, I saw any value of his informative dribbles on rowing repeatedly negated by his arrogance in offering Lessons on (Leading a Self-Absorbed) Life. A disappointing sinker, unlike the comparably intended work of Richard Bode.
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