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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.
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Mortimer, Gavin.
Walker & Company : Distributed to the trade by Macmillan, 2008.
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797.210922 M888g
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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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9780802715951 (alk. paper)
Edition:
1st U.S. ed.
Description:
325 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
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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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