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Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-06-25 - Publisher: Liveright Publishing

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A groundbreaking history of how women found synchronicity—and power—in water. “If you’re not strong enough to swim fast, you’re probably not strong en
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-06-02 - Publisher: Hachette Books

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Choose a stroke and get paddling through the human history of swimming! From man's first recorded dip into what's now the driest spot on earth to the splashing,
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A Contemporary History of Women's Sport, Part One
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This book is an historical survey of women’s sport from 1850-1960. It looks at some of the more recent methodological approaches to writing sports history and
The Three-Year Swim Club
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The New York Times bestselling inspirational story of impoverished children who transformed themselves into world-class swimmers. In 1937, a schoolteacher on th