Daniel J. Boyne Knihy

Essential Sculling is an authoritative, concise, and thoroughly readable handbook that focuses on helping anyone become an accomplished sculler.

Harvard University coach and acclaimed rowing author, Dan Boyne, tells a humorous story of his first year of freshman crew, including a sub plot of personal redemption against an insufferable football player who has bullied him throughout high school. After being accepted at Trinity College in Hartford, CT, Boyne decides to take up rowing, the only sport that takes place far off campus, on the adventurous waters of The Connecticut River. There, he quickly experiences the unique rigors, rewards, and colorful personalities of the sport, not knowing that his nemesis has decided to try out for crew, at rival school Coast Guard Academy. As racing season approaches, Boyne becomes part of an exceptional freshman lightweight boat, with high hopes to win the National Championships in Philadelphia that year, but his final fears are realized when he discovers that his old high school archenemy is also doing well, and rowing in the very same position as he is--the seven seat

Harvard University rowing coach and long-time crew luminary Dan Boyne tells a tale of murder on the Charles River in Cambridge, MA. A wealthy man is murdered, and there are plenty of suspects within the rowing community in Cambridge. It's chockablock full of well-drawn characters, including cops, doctors, Cantabrigians, oarsmen, and a wily coxswain who may be having an affair with his wealthy stepmother. . .