Gil Dodds: The Flying Parson - Couverture rigide

Larson, Mel

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1258866447 ISBN 13 : 9781258866440

Editeur : Literary Licensing, LLC, 2013

Synopsis

Gil Dodds: The Flying Parson is a biography written by Mel Larson about the life of Gil Dodds, a renowned American track and field athlete in the 1940s and 1950s. Dodds was also a Christian minister, which earned him the nickname ""The Flying Parson"". The book chronicles Dodds' journey from a small town in Illinois to becoming a record-breaking runner at Wheaton College and later on the national and international stage. Despite his success, Dodds faced many challenges, including injury and controversy surrounding his decision to compete in the 1948 Olympics in London. Throughout it all, Dodds remained committed to his faith and used his platform to spread his message. The book offers a fascinating look at the intersection of sports and religion and provides insight into the life of one of America's greatest track and field athletes.This is a new release of the original 1945 edition.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Literary Licensing, LLC
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1258866447
• ISBN 13: 9781258866440
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 106
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible