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Swimming with the Spit : 100 years of the Spit Amateur Swimming Club / editor: Tanya Evans ; contributors: Leigh Boucher, Nancy Cushing, Kate Fullagar, Ian Hoskins and Iain McCalman. - 1 online resource

"Everybody went down there at high tide": a semi-personal history of swimming baths around Sydney's north shore / Ian Hoskins -- Spit swimmers and their costumes / Nancy Cushing -- No limits: the Spit Club's female champions / Tanya Evans -- "In the days of fear": how Mosman beach-siders grew up with sharks / Iain McCalman -- Growing up a land-locked swimmer: musings on oceans, pools and coaching / Kate Fullagar -- In-between bodies: different swimming abilities at the Spit / Leigh Boucher.

ISBN: 9781742247960 (electronic bk.) 1742247962 (electronic bk.)

Subjects--Corporate Names:
Spit Amateur Swimming Club (N.S.W., Mosman)--History.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Swimming--Australia--Mosman (N.S.W.)
Swimmers--Australia--Mosman (N.S.W.)--Biography.
Community life--History.--Australia--Mosman (N.S.W.)
SPORTS & RECREATION--Water Sports.
Community life.
Swimmers.
Swimming.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
New South Wales--Mosman.

Subjects--Index Terms: Australian

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.
Biographies.
History.

LC Class. No.: GV837

Dewey Class. No.: 797.21099441