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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 : Kathy Watson
Publisher : Hachette UK
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 Hachette UK. 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 : 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.
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 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 : Anne Petrie
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750983213
Total Pages : 286 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 286 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.
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 : Julian Norridge
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141903376
Total Pages : 567 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book Can We Have Our Balls Back, Please? written by Julian Norridge and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2008-11-06 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long before Drake refused to interrupt his game of bowls when the Armada was sighted, the British have had a passionate relationship with sport. Julian Norridge goes through the stories of fourteen major sports from cricket to boxing to football, from their very beginning and throughout the British Isles, whether it’s Welsh inventor and tobacco enthusiast Major Walter Clopton Wingfield coming up with a game that could use those new fangled rubber balls (modern tennis) or the Scots inventing the golf club – 500 years after the game. But this is far more than a book about sport, it takes a very funny, very British look at our popular history, mythology and most importantly the highly eccentric figures that made it. It chronicles the constant battle between fair play and gambling; between advances in the game and plain cheating (such as turning up with a cricket bat wider than the wicket). Can We Have Our Balls Back Please? proves that there is an awful lot to be proud of in our history and where that strange feeling of superiority really comes from. It shows why we get just so excited when we take on any other nation in any sporting event and are so disappointed when we lose...
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 : Richard William Cox
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780714652504
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (525 download)
Download or read book British Sport written by Richard William Cox and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 216 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 : Captain Webb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780946014781
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (147 download)
Download or read book Art of Swimming written by Captain Webb and published by . This book was released on 1999-08-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas William Sheffield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Swimming in All Its Branches written by Thomas William Sheffield and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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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:
Author : Des Renford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780732910334
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Nothing Great is Easy written by Des Renford and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated edition of a 1992 autobiography of a well-known marathon swimmer. Author tells of his introduction to distance swimming and his determination to swim the English Channel - a feat he achieved 19 times. Includes eulogies and tributes given at his requiem Mass on 6 January 2000, following his death from heart failure. Includes photographs. Co-author Heads' other publications include '200 Years of Australian Sport' and 'True Blue'.
Author : Richard William Cox
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719025921
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (259 download)
Download or read book Sport in Britain written by Richard William Cox and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mike Humphreys
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1481759043
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (817 download)
Download or read book In Cold Water written by Mike Humphreys and published by Author House. This book was released on 2013-07-17 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Cold Water immerses the reader in the challenges, sights, sounds, triumphs and disappointments of swimming the English Channel--and one man's fixation on the feat. First conquered in 1875 by Matthew Webb, the choppy, 22-mile Channel presents one of the supreme endurance challenges in all of sports. With nothing but a basic swimsuit, pair of goggles, a swim cap, and a goal, swimmers leave Dover Harbor in England and battle their way through frigid waters, mercurial weather, jellyfish, and unrelenting ship traffic. They swim through sunrises and sunsets powered by sheer will and specially formulated energy feeds. And if physical and mental conditions go their way, they walk out of the water in France. Mike Humphreys has swum the swim several times--and though he's yet to achieve his goal, hes amassed a fascinating book full of personal experiences, history, stories of other Channel swimmers, and lore surrounding the sport. For sports active adherents, armchair swimmers and athletes of every stripe, or even just those fascinated by the challenge of English Channel swimming, In Cold Water makes fascinating and inspiring reading.
