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True Blue: The Oxford Boat Race Mutiny by: Daniel Topolski, Patrick Robinson Price: £44.95 Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Hardcover EAN: 9780385268929 ISBN: 0385268920 Label: Doubleday Manufacturer: Doubleday Number Of Pages: 320 Publication Date: December 31, 1989 Publisher: Doubleday Studio: Doubleday Sales Rank: 102445 Related Items: Related Items: ![True Blue [1996]](http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00004S8I8.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg) see moreBrowse for similar items by category:
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 Rating:  - A ripping story, breathlessly told, but "true"?It is not easy to explain to anyone what the big attraction of rowing is, and this book mostly succeeds (see also The Amateurs). The author's (or at least Topolski's) passion for the big race is communicated well, and the book is full of entertaining anecdotes about previous Boat Race legends. However, given that this claims to be a true story, the characters have an unsatisfying comic-book feel about them, and are barely recognisable from their real-life equivalents. The action is full of noticeable omissions in the interest of a nice straightforward story. There are heroic goodies and dastardly baddies, and the simmering anti-Americanism that is never far beneath the surface of much English journalism shines through. Read More: Rating:  - A well written true story of the infamous Boat Race mutiny.This book delves into the feelings and actions in the preceeding year to the 1987 Boat Race. This book follows the life of two of Oxford's most well known people, Donald Macdonald and Daniel Topolski. I have to say that I could not put it down. I have read it three times more and every time still found it to be a great book. Full of betrayal, deceit and the English men that conquered it. Rating: - a moving story of courage standing up to unspeakable deceitTopolski tells a tale of brash American students attending Oxford trying to take over the greatest boat race in the world in the most cowardly and deceitful manner. A great tale of integrity and ability prevailing over nepotism. One of the greatest books I have ever read on man's determination to prove that hard work,honesty and ability will always rise above sportsmen believing they should be chosen,not on merit,but on reputation. |
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