01785pam a2200241   4500001000500000005001700005020002100022100002800043245010900071264003200180300005900212336002900271336002200300337002600322338002400348500005100372504005100423520089800474600001601372611005301388650005201441650005001493606720181127180823.0  a9781447210986 c1 aBrown, Daniel,d1951-e14aThe boys in the boat :ban epic true-life journey to the heart of Hitler's Berlin /cDaniel James Brown. 1aLondon :bPan Books,c2014.  a404 pages :billustrations (black and white) ;c20 cm.  astill image2rdacontent.  atext2rdacontent.  aunmediated2rdamedia.  avolume2rdacarrier.  aOriginally published: London: Macmillan, 2013.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.  aThis is an epic true-life journey to the heart of  Hitler's Berlin. Cast aside by his family at an early  age, abandoned and left to fend for himself in the woods  of Washington State, young Joe Rantz turns to rowing as a  way of escaping his past. What follows is an  extraordinary journey, as Joe and eight other working- class boys exchange the sweat and dust of life in 1930s  America for the promise of glory at the heart of Hitler's  Berlin. Stroke by stroke, a remarkable young man strives  to regain his shattered self-regard, to dare again to  trust in others - and to find his way back home. Told  against the backdrop of the Great Depression, The Boys in  the Boat is narrative non-fiction of the first order; a  personal story full of lyricism and unexpected beauty  that rises above the grand sweep of history, and captures  instead the purest essence of what it means to be alive10aRantz, Joe.20aOlympic Gamesn(11th :d1936 :cBerlin, Germany)  aRowers -- United States -- Biography.vxyz2 0aRowerszUnited StatesxHistoryy20th century.