An Out-of-Boat Experience

An Out-of-Boat Experience by Mallory, Peter. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781885516084.

This book is the culmination of more than forty years of rowing and coaching on the collegiate, national and international levels. The authors experience on the University of Pennsylvania Lightweight Crew during the 1960s leaves him with more questions than answers, about boats and about life, and those questions propel him on a homeric odyssey in search of inner peace and perfect rowing technique. This epic journey is full of peaks and valleys, occasionally tragic, often hilarious. The discoveries he makes along the way, the truths he shares at its end, will surprise, perplex and challenge rowers and nonrowers alike. This book is at once a fond reminiscence and a thought-provoking treatise on the metaphysics of life and of moving racing shells through water.