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Author
Publisher
Hay House, Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"In 2007, Roz Savage set out to row 8,000 miles across the Pacific Ocean-alone. Despite having successfully rowed across the Atlantic the previous year, the Pacific presented the former office worker with unprecedented challenges and overpowering currents-both in the ocean water and within herself. Crossing Earth's largest ocean alone might seem a long way removed from everyday life, yet the lessons Roz learned about the inner journey, the ocean,...
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Time Warner Book Group
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Traces the 2003 journey of the female rower, who crossed the Atlantic in a twenty-four-foot-long boat over the course of one hundred and seventeen days, facing near-freezing water, exhaustion, sharks, dangerous weather, and capsizings.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"The University of Washington's 1936 eight-oar crew transformed the sport and grabbed the attention of millions of Americans. The sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers, the nine boys, in the depths of the Great Depression, showed the world what beating the odds really meant. They defeated elite rivals from California and eastern schools to earn the right to compete against the German crew rowing for Adolf Hitler in the Olympic Games in Berlin....
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"In 1936, nine working-class boys from the University of Washington took the rowing world and the nation by storm when their eight-oar crew team captured the gold medal at the Olympics in Berlin. These sons of loggers, shipyard workers and farmers overcame tremendous hardships--psychological, physical, economic--to beat not only the Ivy League teams of the East Coast, but Adolf Hitler's elite German rowers. The boys' unexpected victory, and the obstacles...
Author
Series
Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James mysteries volume 14
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
When the body of a woman found in the Thames is found to be that of an Olympic rowing contender who is also a high-ranking detective with London's Metropolitan Police, Scotland Yard superintendent Duncan Kincaid finds himself heading an investigation fraught with complications.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Berlin, 1936. The Olympic finals of the eight-oared rowing race. Germany, Italy, USA. The American boat touches the finish line first, beating all odds and sending Hitler away in a silent rage. In the midst of the Great Depression, the nine rowers showed the world what true grit really meant. They were western, working-class boys who never expected to beat the elite teams of the East Coast and Great Britain, yet they did. At the center of the tale...
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