The Three-Year Swim Club : The Untold Story of the Sugar Ditch Kids and Their Quest for Olympic Glory
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0349141916
ISBN-13
9780349141916
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint
Abacus
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 21st, 2016
Print length
432 Pages
Weight
312 grams
Dimensions
13.00 x 19.70 x 3.00 cms
Ksh 2,000.00
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New York Times bestseller. For readers of Laura Hillenbrand's Unbroken and Daniel James Brown's The Boys in the Boat. The inspirational story of a group of impoverished children who were transformed into champion swimmers.
In 1937 an ordinary school teacher on the island of Maui took a group of under privileged children, most of Japanese ancestry, and trained them to become Olympic swimmers. He called his plan the 'Three-Year Swim Club' and he succeeded in producing true American heroes whose story has never been told. None of the barefoot children had ever laid eyes on a pool. Their only experience in water was playing naked in the filthy irrigation ditches that snaked down from the mountains and into the sugar cane fields. And the coach knew nothing about coaching and couldn't swim a lap to save his life. But, against all odds, and during a period of history marked by virulent racism and the Second World War, the children embarked on an unlikely path that led them to become celebrated swimmers from LA to London, and real-life American heroes.
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