Taking on the challenge of coaching the poor-but-humble mens' varsity crew at UC Santa Barbara requires a special sort of person - Olympic gold medalist Brad Alan Lewis is the man for the job. Or is he? Yes, he'd won the gold at the Olympics, but he'd never coached a college crew - not even a novice team. Mountain lions, rattlesnakes, icy roads, crazed bass fishermen - they all conspired to make Lewis's challenge even more... challenging. Read 'Wanted: Rowing Coach' and find out if he survived. Actually, since it's an autobiography of sorts (thinly veiled fiction) you can pretty much assume he survived. Nonetheless, read 'Wanted' and find out how much fun, excitement, adventure Lewis and his crew had along the way. Several Class 7 rowing/life lessons included at no extra charge. Lewis enjoyed one adventurous year at the helm of the University of California Santa Barbara rowing program. His new book, Wanted: Rowing Coach, is an honest collection of the entire range of rowing experiences, packed into a dated journal of one collegiate years. It was quite a year. At his first practice, not one of the rowers showed up, (communications mix-up). At the last race, the Pacific Coast Rowing Championships, his heavyweight quad, (yes, a college quad) won the event. In between these milestones, he cleaned, drove, ran, fixed, fund-raised, and, You get the idea. I relished the observations. -- Independent Rowing News Used Book in Good Condition