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This is an epic true-life journey to the heart of Hitler's Berlin. 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. 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,...
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Soon to be a major motion picture directed by George Clooney
The #1 New York Times bestseller freshly adapted for the next generation.
Inspiration for the PBS American Experience Documentary 'The Boys of '36'
For readers of Unbroken, out of the depths of the Great Depression comes the astonishing tale of nine working-class boys from the American West who at the 1936 Olympics showed the world what true grit...
The #1 New York Times bestseller freshly adapted for the next generation.
Inspiration for the PBS American Experience Documentary 'The Boys of '36'
For readers of Unbroken, out of the depths of the Great Depression comes the astonishing tale of nine working-class boys from the American West who at the 1936 Olympics showed the world what true grit...
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2023.
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xviii, 364 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
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English
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of The First Man comes a sweeping saga involving two extraordinary--and extraordinarily different--adventurers who have only one thing in common: the ambition to cross the Atlantic in a rowboat...alone"--
6) Rowing
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2019.
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96 pages : color illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm.
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English
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Outlines requirements for the merit badge in rowing.
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"Unlike Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, Tori Murden McClure's true story of a woman and the sea and a boat named American Pearl is one of victory. . . . If you want to be inspired, read this book. You won't stop till you've finished." — Sena Jeter Naslund, author of Ahab's Wife
In this thrilling memoir by the first woman to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean, Tori McClure finds that what she is looking
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2020.
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"Now a documentary narrated by Common, produced by Grant Hill, Dwyane Wade, and 9th Wonder, from filmmaker Mary Mazzio The moving true story of a group of young men growing up on Chicago's West side who form the first all-black high school rowing team in the nation, and in doing so not only transform a sport, but their lives. Growing up on Chicago's Westside in the 90's, Arshay Cooper knows the harder side of life. The street corners are full of gangs,...
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[2022]
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1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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During their last year at an Ivy League college in 1999, a group of friends and crew teammates' lives are changed forever when an army vet takes over as coach of their dysfunctional rowing team.
11) The boys of '36
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[2016]
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1 videodisc (approximately 55 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In 1936, nine boys from the University of Washington took the rowing world and a nation by storm, when their eight-oar crew team captured the gold medal at the Olympics in Berlin. The boys' victory, and their obstacles, inspired a nation struggling to emerge from the depths of the Depression.
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2014.
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215 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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"The true-life adventure of two men who rowed across the Atlantic Ocean and the history of those who came before More people have climbed Mount Everest than have rowed across the Atlantic. For more than seventy days, Adam Rackley and his rowing partner ate, slept and rowed in a boat seven meters long by two meters wide, in one of the world's most extreme environments. This is his story of adventure, endurance, and self-discovery. They were following...
14) My red rowboat
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[2002]
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24 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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A father and child row a red boat across a lake to buy groceries.
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[2021]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 18 cm
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English
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Row, row, row your boat, these adorable dinosaurs can't seem to stay afloat! A group of lovable dinosaurs go out on the lake for a day of sunny fun. But rowing boats can be hard when you're the size of a dinosaur! The silly images and this fun spin on the classic rhyme are sure to appeal to little ones who love the original song.
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2014.
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xxii, 217 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 21 cm
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English
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"Thirty-two-year-old Julia Immonen and four other women take on a challenge completed by fewer people than have climbed Mount Everest or gone into space : row three thousand miles, unaided, from the Canary Islands to Barbados. 'Row For Freedom' chronicles that dramatic journey, detailing the grueling, peril-filled crossing, which broke two world records, as it weaves together Julia's search for hope and purpose against a background of relationships...
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2017.
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226 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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"In this gripping first-hand account, four seasoned adventurers navigate a sophisticated, high-tech rowboat across the Northwest Passage. One of the "last firsts" remaining in the adventure world, this journey is only possible because of the dramatic impacts of global warming in the high Arctic, which provide an ironic opportunity to draw attention to the growing urgency of climate change."--
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[1996]
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139 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
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English
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During the 1870s, rowing because a tremendously popular sport in the United States. An enthusiastic rower, the young Philadelphia-born Thomas Eakins painted, sketched, and drew an extraordinary series of rowing pictures that were the most ambitious project of his early career. He brought to the theme his personal experiences as an avid amateur rower on his beloved Schuylkill River, and a scientific understanding of the physical effort involved. His...
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