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THE BOYS IN THE BOAT - DANIEL J BROWN KARTONIER...

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  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. 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. '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

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