The Crossing: The Extraordinary Story of the First Man to Swim the English Channel - Couverture souple

Watson, Kathy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0747262136 ISBN 13 : 9780747262138

Editeur : Headline Book Publishing, 2001

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l?auteur

Since graduating from Oxford with a degree in English, Kathy Watson has worked as a journalist and became editor of Women's Realm. She swims three to four times a week and still daydreams about swimming the Channel.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Headline Book Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0747262136
• ISBN 13: 9780747262138
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible