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The three-year swim club : the untold story of Maui's Sugar Ditch kids and their quest for Olympic glory / Julie Checkoway.
- Title
- The three-year swim club : the untold story of Maui's Sugar Ditch kids and their quest for Olympic glory / Julie Checkoway.
- Author
- Checkoway, Julie
- Publication
- New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2015.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | GV837.9 .C54 2015 | Off-site |
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- Description
- viii, 415 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- The inspirational story of a group of impoverished children who were transformed into champion swimmers. In 1937 an ordinary grammar school teacher on the island of Maui took a group of underprivileged children, mostly of Japanese ancestry, and in three short years transformed them into Olympic champions.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Biographies
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [359]-388) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Part one: Such stuff as dreams (1932-1937). To race with giants ; Hardhead ; A wide awakening ; The pursuit of greater ventures -- Part two: On such a sea (1938). An exercise of will ; Owing to the protracted hostilities ; Keeping 1940 in mind all the time -- Part three: Taken at the flood (1939). Down under ; Youths of the sea ; The coup -- Part four: A tide in the affairs of men (1940-1941). A season of flame ; Santa Barbara ; Mr. Smith comes to Maui ; Blitzkrieg -- Part five: Fall seven times, get up eight (nana korobi, ya oki) (1944-1948). Go for broke ; Home front ; Detroit, redux (1948) ; Goals and sacrifices.
- ISBN
- 9781455523443
- 1455523445
- LCCN
- ^^2015947608
- OCLC
- 907157329
- SCSB-12607379
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library