The three-year swim club : the untold story of Maui's Sugar Ditch kids and their quest for Olympic glory
Record details
- ISBN: 1455523453
- ISBN: 9781455523450
- ISBN: 1455523445
- ISBN: 9781455523443
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Physical Description:
viii, 415 pages, 16 unumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2015.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-388) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Preface -- Part One: Such Stuff as Dreams (1932-1937) -- Chapter One: To Race with Giants -- Chapter Two: Hardhead -- Chapter Three: A Wide Awakening -- Chapter Four: The Pursuit of Greater Ventures -- Part Two: On Such a Sea (1938) -- Chapter Five: An Exercise of Will -- Chapter Six: Owing to the Protracted Hostilities -- Chapter Seven: Keeping 1940 in Mind All the Time -- Part Three: Takenat the Flood (1939) -- Chapter Eight: Down Under -- Chapter Nine: Youths of the Sea -- Chapter Ten: The Coup -- Part Four: A Tide in the Affairs of Men (1940-1941) -- Chapter Eleven: A Season of Flame -- Chapter Twelve: Santa Barbara -- Chapter Thirteen: Mr. Smith Comes to Maui -- Chapter Fourteen: Blitzkrieg-- Part Five: Fall Seven Times, Get Up Eight (Nana korobi, ya oki) (1944-1948) -- Chapter Fifteen: Go for Broke -- Chapter Sixeen: Home Front -- Chapter Seventeen: Detroit, Redux (1948) -- Chapter Eighteen: Goals and Sacrifices -- Afterword -- Author's Notes -- Section Notes -- Three-Year Swim Club Members -- Mahalo Nui Loa/Thank You -- Index -- About the Author. |
Target Audience Note: | 1260L Lexile |
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Subject: | Swimmers Hawaii Maui Biography Swimming Hawaii Maui History Japanese American children Hawaii Maui Olympic Games (14th : 1948 : London, England) |
Genre: | Biographies. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Haywood County Library.
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Haywood County Main Library | 797.21 Checkoway (Text) | 33115007614479 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |