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Mortimer, Gavin.
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Long distance swimming -- English Channel.
Women swimmers -- Biography.
Swimmers -- Biography.
United States -- History -- 1919-1933.
English Channel.
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Mortimer, Gavin.
Long distance swimming -- English Channel.
Women swimmers -- Biography.
Swimmers -- Biography.
United States -- History -- 1919-1933.
English Channel.
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The great swim / Gavin Mortimer.
by
Mortimer, Gavin.
Walker & Company : Distributed to the trade by Macmillan, 2008.
Call #:
797.210922 M888g
Subjects
Long
distance
swimming
--
English
Channel
.
Women swimmers
--
Biography.
Swimmers
--
Biography.
United States
--
History
--
1919-1933.
English
Channel
.
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ISBN:
9780802715951 (alk. paper)
Edition:
1st U.S. ed.
Description:
325 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-313) and index.
Summary:
Draws on primary sources, diaries, and family interviews to document the story of four American athletes who in 1926 became the first women to swim the
English
Channel
, in an account that also cites the media frenzy that surrounded their achievement.
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