Rowing
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Editor's review
Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers interested in rowing history and early training ideas
- Students of sports literature or British leisure-culture history
- Enthusiasts with rowing experience who want to understand traditional technical discourse
- Those needing public-domain English sports texts as reading material
Not a good fit for
- Coaches or athletes seeking modern rowing training plans and scientific data
- Complete beginners with no rowing experience hoping for an illustrated starter tutorial
- Those expecting step-by-step diagrams or video-assisted learning
Reading tips
- Read the table of contents and introduction first, then locate and select chapters on technique, training, and racing.
- Flag period-specific statements while reading, and compare with contemporary rowing manuals afterward.
- Readers with rowing experience can relate the technical descriptions to their own movements.
- Treat the book as sports-history material rather than executing its items as a training plan.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
Contents
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FAQ
Can this book directly guide modern rowing training?
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About the author
R. C. Lehmann (Rudolf Chambers Lehmann, 1856–1929) was a British journalist, writer and Liberal politician who contributed for many years to Punch and other periodicals. He combined a career in journalism with literary writing, publishing in popular magazines while also taking part in parliamentary politics, and stands as a typical figure of the late Victorian and early twentieth-century British man of letters in public life. His surviving works are few; this library holds two titles: Rowing, a book on the sport that reflects his familiarity with and observation of rowing, and The Vagabond and Other Poems from Punch, a collection of verse from Punch marked by light humour and the magazine's characteristic wit and irony. Public information about his life and writing is limited, and scholarly discussion of his literary standing is sparse, yet his poems and essays offer useful material for studying the periodical culture of his time.
