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Brown Dog Books OXFORD BROOKES A SPORTING MIRACLE.
OXFORD BROOKES A SPORTING MIRACLE ABISBOOK Brown Dog Books.
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Peter Smith
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October 22, 2025
Written by Peter Smith, a former cox at Cambridge University, and with a Foreword by Sir Steve Redgrave, this is a delightful book. If – like me – you know nothing about rowing, don’t worry. Smith’s engaging narrative style, coupled with his obvious enthusiasm for the sport, will get you over the full 2,000-metre course (or 2,112 metres if it’s Henley). This is the story of a rowing club with humble beginnings who went on to achieve great things – and who doesn’t like an underdog story?
Along the way, you’ll learn a lot. Particularly how much rowing HURTS, and the tenacity and obsession necessary to achieve success. And how much failure is almost as painful as the strain that the sport puts on your body.
Well researched, and lovingly put together, ‘Oxford Brookes’ is highly recommended as a ‘different’ sort of read. “From a cowshed on the Thames to the top of the rowing world’, as the blurb says.
Go on, buy a copy. You know you want to.
Along the way, you’ll learn a lot. Particularly how much rowing HURTS, and the tenacity and obsession necessary to achieve success. And how much failure is almost as painful as the strain that the sport puts on your body.
Well researched, and lovingly put together, ‘Oxford Brookes’ is highly recommended as a ‘different’ sort of read. “From a cowshed on the Thames to the top of the rowing world’, as the blurb says.
Go on, buy a copy. You know you want to.
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