Mind Over Water: Lessons on Life from the Art of Rowing » (None)

Craig Lambert, a staff writer and editor at Harvard Magazine, has also written for Sports Illustrated and Town & Country. He trains and races in single sculls on the Charles River in Boston, and occasionally competes in major rowing events, such as the Head of the Charles Regatta.

In this wise and thrilling book, Craig Lambert turns rowing--personal discipline, modern Olympic sport, grand collegiate tradition, and fitness pursuit for thousands of men and women--into a metaphor for a vigorous and satisfying life. Skimming the plane where sky and water meet, rowers must fully inhabit the present moment, whether facing their demons in a single scull or discovering the paradoxes of teamwork and commitment in a crew shell. This is a book about balance, attaining consistency and speed, independence and cooperation, joy and creative powers. Filled with humor and imagination, Mind Over Water speaks to rowers and non-rowers alike.

The New York Times Book Review - Caroline Knapp

. . .[A] thoughtful, lovingly drawn meditation on . . .[a] brand of transformation. . . .This is no simple ode to the beauty of river and shell; nor. ..is it a chronicle of the sport's physical rigors. Lambert covers both those bases. . . .But even the heaviest moments are offset by light . . .