Christopher Dodd
Christopher Dodd is a journalist specialising in rowing and author of books on its history from Viking times. Watermen serviced communities wherever there was water to cross and goods to carry until sail and steam sank them. In the 1860s rowing became a sport for amateurs, a time when books and newspapers boomed on both sides of the Atlantic. Rowing men were numerous among society’s higher strata, including the journalists s and proprietors in the pages of News Fit To Print.
