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True Blue: The Oxford Boat Race Mutiny by: Daniel Topolski, Patrick Robinson |
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Binding: Paperback EAN: 9780553400038 ISBN: 0553400037 Label: Bantam Books Ltd Manufacturer: Bantam Books Ltd Number Of Pages: 320 Publication Date: 1990-02 Publisher: Bantam Books Ltd Studio: Bantam Books Ltd Sales Rank: 310847 Related Items:
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Editorial Review: Synopsis: The story of the sporting event which shook Oxford University and its boat club in the harsh winter of 1986/7 when a group of Americans arrived hoping to put some steel into a Boat race crew still reeling from defeat at the hand of Cambridge. Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - A true storyThis was an excellent book by the coach of the Oxford squad in the 1980s Daniel Topolski, they do say truth is strager than fiction, and this book shows its alot more interesting also. Its a very English moral tale: 'winning is best done by being part of a team and the quest for self glory is not a noble one'. It also quite nicely lays bare the bullying tactics and power play that the Americans are so adept at, fortunately they don't get to be the winners in this story. Rating:  - BIG DEALPicture this scene and try to imagine what it is all about. `A lone figure was standing up...balancing like a statue....His mighty arms were raised upwards to the sky, and his face stared in ecstasy into the heavens beyond....Donald Macdonald was alone with his God.' Was Mr Macdonald perhaps a survivor of the massacre of Glencoe? Had he routed the minions of Butcher Cumberland? Well, no. This Mr Macdonald had just won the annual Oxford/Cambridge boat race in 1987. I have never been sure of the propriety of invoking the help of the Almighty in achieving victory in sport. Does He really tip the balance in favour of whoever prays hardest (assuming that both competitors have kept to the rules and put in equivalent amounts of effort)? ... Read More: Rating: - A gripping story of a mutiny in the Oxford boat race crew.A classic sporting story, with heroes and villains. That the former are British and the latter American makes it particularly enjoyable. |
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