Mind over Water: Lessons on Life from the Art of Rowing - Hardcover

Lambert, Craig

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395857163 ISBN 13: 9780395857168

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (Trade), 1998

Synopsis

In an exploration of the sport, the author reflects upon the metaphysical voyage into the soul

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Review

"A staff writer and editor for Harvard Magazine tells how sculling became a path to personal growth and how 'lessons learned afloat carry over onto dry land.' The result is a 'thoughtful, lovingly drawn meditation, ' Caroline Knapp wrote here last year. 'The river becomes a character in its own right, something to dip into for a time, something transporting.'"

"Lambert has finished the course well in Mind Over Water, which has the same attributes as the rowing he adores: precision, grace, and total immersion." Boston Globe

"A staff writer and editor for Harvard Magazine tells how sculling became a path to personal growth and how 'lessons learned afloat carry over onto dry land.' The result is a 'thoughtful, lovingly drawn meditation, ' Caroline Knapp wrote here last year. 'The river becomes a character in its own right, something to dip into for a time, something transporting.'" The New York Times

From the Publisher

"Forbes FYI" review
"A curious and well-wrought meditation on the relationship of rowing, with its taxing monotony and intricate systems of balance and velocity, to life, which certainly shares those features. Lambert is a philomath who, after crew at Harvard, couldn't quite settle on a single path. Sensing his life wasn't following a proper trajectory, he turned to rowing for inspiration and found in it a paradigm: it requires poise, symmetry, forward motion, cooperation, concentration and consistency. His reflections on how to focus one's energies in order to attain harmony in life and work will remind some of the now-classic Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance; Lambert's book shares with that one a thoughtful writing style that's meaningful without ever lapsing into treacly New Age mush. It's also a great primer on the mechanics of rowing, which to hear Lambert describe it, is a hell of a lot harder than it looks from the shoreline."

Edition details

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (Trade)
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0395857163
• ISBN 13: 9780395857168
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 184