The great swim / Gavin Mortimer.
Author: Mortimer, Gavin.
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: New York : Walker & Company : Distributed to the trade by Macmillan, 2008.
ISBN: 9780802715951 (alk. paper)
0802715958 (alk. paper)
Description: 325 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Subject(s): Women swimmers United States Biography.
Long distance swimming English Channel.
Women swimmers Biography. sears
Swimmers United States Biography. sears
Marathon swimming. sears
United States History 1919-1933.
English Channel. sears
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.