Salt, Sweat, Tears

The Men Who Rowed the Oceans

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Pub Date 30 Sep 2014 | Archive Date 30 Nov 2014

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The Atlantic Rowing Race is one of the most challenging and dangerous contests in the world, where a teams of two attempt to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a rowboat. Participants spend months in the water, sleeping in shifts in cramped corners, rowing in good weather and trying to keep afloat during storms, so that they can say they accomplished what so few have even attempted. Adam Rackley had been working as a fund manager in London when he approached Jimmy Arnold to enter the race with him, in which they would leave from the Canary Islands off the coast of Spain and, if they make it through the race, would dock in Antigua. Although neither had any major rowing experience, they set off together to try to complete this harrowing feat, which Rackley has chronicled in his book, SALT, SWEAT, TEARS: The Men Who Rowed the Oceans (A Penguin Paperback Original; On-Sale Date: September 30, 2014; ISBN: 978-0-14-312666-9; $16.00).

In this tale of adventure, endurance, and self-discovery, Rackley details the seventy days that he and Jimmy rowed in two hour shifts, eating and sleeping in a boat seven meters long and two meters wide. Rackley recounts the physical and mental hardships that he and Jimmy faced, the toll it takes on the body to row nearly constantly with little time for recuperation, and the crushing isolation of spending weeks apart from civilization. Rackley also chronicles the men who pioneered the crossing, from the first pair to successfully row the Atlantic in 1896 and those that followed, as well as the ones who never made it to the other side. Rackley has interviewed a number of family members of the history-making adventurers, as well as the man who created the Atlantic Rowing Race, Sir Chay Blyth, who himself rowed across the Atlantic in 1966.

Fewer people have completed this crossing than have climbed Mount Everest, and SALT, SWEAT, TEARS is a bird’s-eye account of the men and women who have spent their life savings, forsaken relationships with friends and family, and risked their lives for the ultimate adventure.

The Atlantic Rowing Race is one of the most challenging and dangerous contests in the world, where a teams of two attempt to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a rowboat. Participants spend months in the...


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