240 Beats per Minute by Bernard Witholt PhD

240 Beats per Minute by Bernard Witholt PhD

Author:Bernard Witholt PhD
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781632991874
Publisher: River Grove Books
Published: 2018-10-15T00:00:00+00:00


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How can anyone read this without smiling? Bernie’s almost lyric description of his Saturday mornings went far beyond science; he loved life. He loved the experience of rowing, the athletes’ efforts blending together until the boat fairly danced.

His sense of European culture and community extended beyond the rowing club—back in time to the Romans and the Reformation and across space to the “great German opera houses.”

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22In London along the tideway, wherries were water taxis; in Elizabethan times, their use was widespread.

23Bernie speaks from experience; he was the bowman when we rowed a double scull.



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