The Three-Year Swim Club : the Untold Story of Maui's Sugar Ditch Kids and Their Quest for Olympic Glory
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Compact discs.
Read by Alex Chadwick.
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.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Hachette Audio, 2015.
Year Published: 2015
Description: 12 sound discs (900 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language: English
Format: Book on CD
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781619693845
1619693844
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Chadwick, Alex.
SUBJECTS
Olympic Games -- 1948 : -- London, England)
Japanese American children -- Maui.
Swimming -- Maui -- History.
Swimmers -- Maui -- Biography.
Olympics.