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The Last Amateurs: To Hell and Back with the Cambridge Boat Race Crew
by: Mark De Rond

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9781848310155
ISBN: 1848310153
Label: Icon Books Ltd
Manufacturer: Icon Books Ltd
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: August 14, 2008
Publisher: Icon Books Ltd
Studio: Icon Books Ltd
Sales Rank: 1880

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Fascinating insights as relevant to team building as to rowing
This is a fascinating inside look at the preparation by the 2007 winning Cambridge Boat Race crew by a sociologist who more or less lived with the squad throughout the period and who appears to have played a crucial role at some moments - for instance in helping sort out some disputes within one of the crews.

It comes close to Daniel Topolski's 'Boat Race', the story of the Oxford revival from 1973 to 1984 and for me one of the best books on rowing ever written. It is miles ahead of Topolski's account of the 1987 mutiny - for me far over rated.

I was once captain of the rowing club (Jesus College) right next to the Goldie Boathouse (the CUBC headquarters) and have known some Boat Race oarsmen quite well - e.g rowed ... Read More:

 



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