Rare Rowing Books

I met a solid rowing friend, and asked about the race,
“How fared it with your wind,” I said, “when stroke increased the pace?
“You swung it forward mightily, you heaved it greatly back;
“Your muscles rose in knotted lumps, I almost heard them crack.
“And while we roared and rattled too, your eyes were fixed like glue,
“What thoughts went flying through your mind, how fared it, Five, with you?”
But Five made answer solemnly, “I heard them fire a gun,
“No other mortal thing I knew until the race was done.”

(From “A Trinity Boating Song” by R. C. Lehman)

Welcome to our selection of hard-to-find and unusual Rowing books

Pocock, Fairbairn, Redgrave, Lewis, Cunningham — These are the legends that every rowing enthusiast wants in his or her library. It takes years of searching used-book stores, but, through the magic of the internet, we do the work and you can own these classics without leaving home!

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The Challenge : The First Woman Coxswain of the Harvard Varsity Heavyweight Crew

Harvard’s first female coxswain tells of her long, fiercely dedicated struggle to win acceptance and respect.


Thomas Eakins: The Rowing Pictures by Helen A Cooper	The sculler at ease : what makes boats go by Frank Cunningham	Rowing and Sculling by Bill Sayer	Steven Redgrave’s complete book of rowing by Steven Redgrave

Rowing/Rudern: the Gdr Text of Oarsmanship by Ernst Herberger (trans. Peter Klavora)	Assault on Lake Casitas by Brad Alan Lewis	Regatta : a celebration of oarsmanship by Benjamin Ivry	Steve Fairbairn on rowing by Steve Fairbairn

The brilliants : a history of the Leander Club by Richard Burnell & Geoffrey Page	Oars and Sculls: And How to Use Them (1875) by Walter Bradford Woodgate	The Log of Rowing at the University of California Berkeley, 1870 – 1987 by Jim Lemmon	The Complete Recreational Rower and Racer by Stephen Kiesling, Jinsey Dauk Kiesling

“Way Enough! “: Recollections of a Life in Rowing by Stanley Richard Pocock	Aquatic Notes, Or, Sketches of the Rise and Progress of Rowing at Cambridge by John Fitzherbert Bateman	True blue : the Oxford Boat Race mutiny by Daniel Topolski, Patrick Robinson	Water’s Edge: Women Who Push the Limits in Rowing, Kayaking and Canoeing By Linda Lewis

Wanted: Rowing Coach by Brad Alan Lewis	The Naked Rower: How Two Kiwis Took on the Atlantic – and Won! by Rob Hamill	Henley Royal Regatta by Christopher Dodd	Skillful Rowing: From Juniors to Masters by Edward McNeely; Marlene Royle