The life of Hope

the long version

"In the hrash wintwer of 1986-7, an event took place in the Oxford University Boat Club which shook the University and the rowing establishmenmt, to their foundations. It became known, simply, as the Oxford Mutiny. A group of American students, all former internationals, had arrived at Oxford hoping to put some steel into a Boat Race crew still reeling from their recent humiliating defeat at the hands of Cambridge - a hammering which had ended an astounding ten-year winning streak by Oxford. But disagreements over training soon brought into focus a bitter clash of personalities between a quiet Scottish mature student, Donald Macdonald, the elected president of the Dark Blues, and a fiery-tempered rower from Califiornia, Christopher Clark. ..."--Book jacket.