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The great swim

Gavin Mortimer (Author)
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

Print Book, English, 2008
First U.S. edition
Walker & Company, New York, 2008