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Author : Margaret A. Jarvis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780715369951
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (699 download)
Download or read book Captain Webb and 100 Years of Channel Swimming written by Margaret A. Jarvis and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Elderwick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780947731236
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (312 download)
Download or read book Captain Webb written by David Elderwick and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John RANDALL (F.G.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (54 download)
Download or read book Captain Webb, the ... Champion Channel Swimmer: a Comprehensive Account, Etc. (Appendix. Timed Log of the Journey.). written by John RANDALL (F.G.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Randall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Captain Webb, the ... Champion Channel Swimmer written by John Randall and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kathy Watson
Publisher : Headline
ISBN 13 : 1472236149
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (722 download)
Download or read book The Crossing written by Kathy Watson and published by Headline. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Now a Major Film* On the night of 24 August 1875 Matthew Webb, a 27-year-old British Navy captain, launched himself into the English Channel at Dover. Twenty-one hours and 45 minutes later he became the first man to swim the English Channel. In this acclaimed biography, Kathy Watson shows how Captain Webb was instrumental in bringing the sport of swimming into the modern era. It is also a study of the Victorian drive to push back the boundaries of endurance. In THE CROSSING, Watson uses this great British eccentric's extraordinary life as a springboard to explore themes of obsession and failure and the emerging force of the media, and swimming's place in our psyche.
Author : J. Randall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (66 download)
Download or read book Captain Webb, the Intrepid Champion Channel Swimmer written by J. Randall and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marcia Cleveland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780967209111
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Dover Solo written by Marcia Cleveland and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : D. Rainsford
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403919283
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Literature, Identity and the English Channel written by D. Rainsford and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-03-13 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book concerns the significance of the English Channel in British and French literature from the 1780s onwards: a timely subject given the intense debates in progress about the actual and desired relationships between Britain and mainland Europe. The book addresses contemporary authors who use the Channel as a focus for cultural comment, comparing their approaches to those of earlier writers, from Charlotte Smith and Chateaubriand through Hugo and Dickens to historians and travel writers of the 1950s and 1980s.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (17 download)
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Author : Richard William Cox
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780714652528
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (525 download)
Download or read book British Sport: Biographical studies of British sportsmen, sportswomen, and animals written by Richard William Cox and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume three of a bibliography documenting all that has been written in the English language on the history of sport and physical education in Britain. It lists all secondary source material including reference works, in a classified order to meet the needs of the sports historian.
Author : Lisa Bier
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786487267
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Fighting the Current written by Lisa Bier and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-09-07 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1926, Gertrude Ederle became the first female to swim the English Channel--and broke the existing record time in doing so. Although today she is considered a pioneer in women's swimming, women were swimming competitively 50 years earlier. This historical book details the early period of women's competitive swimming in the United States, from its beginnings in the nineteenth century through Ederle's astonishing accomplishment. Women and girls faced many obstacles to safe swimming opportunities, including restrictive beliefs about physical abilities, access to safe and clean water, bathing suits that impeded movement and became heavy in water, and opposition from official sporting organizations. The stories of these early swimmers plainly show how far female athletes have come.
Author : Richard Cox
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135287775
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)
Download or read book British Sport - a Bibliography to 2000 written by Richard Cox and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume three of a bibliography documenting all that has been written in the English language on the history of sport and physical education in Britain. It lists all secondary source material including reference works, in a classified order to meet the needs of the sports historian.
Author : Dolphin (pseud.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.V/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Channel Feats of Captain Webb and Captain Boyton: with Memoir of Each written by Dolphin (pseud.) and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Llewellyn Williams
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The adventurous life and daring exploits ... of capt. Matthew Webb written by Henry Llewellyn Williams and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Sprawson
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 0307823644
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Haunts of the Black Masseur written by Charles Sprawson and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2012-08-29 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a masterful work of cultural history, Charles Sprawson, himself an obsessional swimmer and fluent diver, explores the meaning that different cultures have attached to water, and the search for the springs of classical antiquity. In nineteenth-century England bathing was thought to be an instrument of social and moral reform, while in Germany and America swimming came to signify escape. For the Japanese the swimmer became an expression of samurai pride and nationalism. Sprawson gives is fascinating glimpses of the great swimming heroes: Byron leaping dramatically into the surf at Shelley’s beach funeral; Rupert Brooke swimming naked with Virginia Woolf, the dark water “smelling of mint and mud”; Hart Crane swallow-diving to his death in the Bay of Mexico; Edgar Allan Poe’s lone and mysterious river-swims; Leander, Webb, Weissmuller, and a host of others. Informed by the literature of Swinburne, Goethe, Scott Fitzgerald, and Yukio Mishima; the films of Riefenstahl and Vigo; the Hollywood “swimming musicals” of the 1930s; and delving in and out of Olympic history, Haunts of the Black Masseur is an enthralling assessment of man—body submerged, self-absorbed. It is quite simply the best celebration of swimming ever written, even as it explores aspects of culture in a heretofore unimagined way.
Author : Anne Petrie
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750983213
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book The Story of Kent written by Anne Petrie and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A richly illustrated history exploring life in Kent. This book tells the amazing story of Kent from earliest times to the modern day. Some of the pivotal moments in the Garden of England’s history are recalled, including invasions from Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings and Normans. It has seen the Black Death, the Peasants’ Revolt, the Swing Riots and, more recently, audacious escapades by suffragettes in the battle for Votes for Women. The story is brought right up to date with the challenges faced by traditional industries and the transformation of cross-Channel travel. The resilient people of Kent have taken it all in their stride and this story encompasses how they lived, worked and played through hundreds of years of colourful history.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Swimming World and Junior Swimmer written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
