First You Have To Row a Little Boat: Reflections on Life and Living: Reflections on Life & Living

First You Have To Row a Little Boat: Reflections on Life and Living: Reflections on Life & Living

by RichardBode (Author)

Synopsis

FIRST YOU HAVE TO ROW A LITTLE BOAT first hit shelves in the mid 1990s and has been inspiring readers ever since. Written by a grown man looking back on his childhood, it reflects on what learning to sail taught him about life: making choices, adapting to change, and becoming his own person. The book is filled with the spiritual wisdom and thought-provoking discoveries that marked such books as Walden, The Prophet, and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. For nearly twenty years, it has enchanted and endeared sailors and non-sailors alike, but foremost, anyone who seeks large truths in small things. This refurbished edition will find a place in the hearts of a whole new generation of readers.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 27 Oct 1995

ISBN 10: 0446670030
ISBN 13: 9780446670036
Book Overview: The national bestseller is repackaged and resissued with a stunning foreword by no.1 New York Times bestselling author Jeffrey Zaslow.

Media Reviews
Bode uses his great love of sailing as a metaphor for the tides of life... Determinedly inspirational, this book will appeal to admirers of Robert Fulghum. Publisher's Weekly Bode is adept at pulling messages out of ordinary experiences. The images he creates are simple and clear, and so are the lessons he derives from them. Kirkus Reviews If you feel lost on this great sea of life, this book is a compass. Its powerful words will carry you like a gentle breeze toward companionship, toward love, toward the deepest self you are called to be. It will ultimately lead you home. -- Regina Brett, Author Of God Never Blinks: 50 Lessons For Life's Little Detours
Author Bio
Richard Bode worked at McGraw Hill and was editorial director and chief speechwriter at Burston-Marsteller. As a freelance writer, he contributed to Reader's Digest, Good Housekeeping, Sail, Sports Illustrated. He is also the author of Blue Sloop at Dawn (1979), which was excerpted in Sports Illustrated, Newsday Sunday Magazine, and Sail, and wrote the award-winning essay To Climb the Wind. He died in 2003 of liver cancer.