rowers

Tori Murden McClure offers her memoir of how she became the first woman to row alone across the Atlantic Ocean.

British ocean rower Roz Savage describes what led her to leave her eleven-year corporate career and invest her life's savings in an ocean rowboat and details her experiences as the first solo woman to enter the Atlantic Rowing Race in 2006.

Recounts the ambitious solo voyage across the Indian Ocean by twenty-three-year-old Sarah Outen aboard her row boat, the Dippers.

Recounts the story of four young men and their quest for an Olympic gold medal.

Explores the history of the American eight-man rowing team that went to the Berlin Olympics in 1936--a group of west coast boys with little to no experience in rowing--discussing the great odds they faced in becoming chosen to represent their country over east coast teams, and the personal challenges each one of them faced during the Great Depression.

Tells how in 1936 the University of Washington's eight-oar crew, composed of the sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers who had mastered collegiate rowing, went on to the Berlin Olympics where they defeated Adolf Hitler's German team to achieve the Olympic gold medal.

Follows four young men, Christopher Wood, John Biglow, Joe Bouscaren, and Brad Lewis, through the preliminary meets for the 1984 Olympic sculling team and the actual competition, chronicling the triumphs and defeats of the group as they pursue their largely ignored sport.