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The great swim /

Title
  1. The great swim / Gavin Mortimer.
Published by
  1. New York : Walker & Company : Distributed to the trade by Macmillan, 2008.
Supplementary content
  1. Contributor biographical information
  2. Publisher description
Author
  1. Mortimer, Gavin.

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Description
  1. 325 p. : ill., map; 22 cm.
Summary
  1. 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.
Subject
  1. Long distance swimming > English Channel
  2. United States > History > 1919-1933
  3. Women swimmers > United States > Biography
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-313) and index.