The Boys in the Boat

An Epic Journey to the Heart of Hitler's Berlin

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Beschreibung

<p>Cast aside by his family at an early age, abandoned and left to fend for himself in the woods of Washington State, young Joe Rantz turns to rowing as a way of escaping his past.</p><p>What follows is an extraordinary journey, as Joe and eight other working-class boys exchange the sweat and dust of life in 1930s America for the promise of glory at the heart of Hitler's Berlin. Stroke by stroke, a remarkable young man strives to regain his shattered self-regard, to dare again to trust in others - and to find his way back home.</p><p>Told against the backdrop of the Great Depression, Daniel James Brown's The Boys in the Boat is narrative non-fiction of the first order; a personal story full of lyricism and unexpected beauty that rises above the grand sweep of history, and captures instead the purest essence of what it means to be alive.</p><p>'I really can't rave enough about this book . . . I read the last fifty pages with white knuckles, and the last twenty-five with tears in my eyes' David Laskin, author of The Children's Blizzard and The Long Way Home</p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781447210986

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

198 x 128 x 30 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

Verlag / Hersteller

Pan Macmillan