Those Million Dollar Mermaids: America's Love Affair with Its First Olympic Swimmers

by Buck Dawson

This book presents stories with interviews and voice tapes taken by more than two dozen mermaids themselves. It is profusely illustrated with glamour photographs from their heyday. The book contains the first in depth interview with Gertrude Ederle in 50 years -- her glamorous yet tragic life as the first woman to swim the English Channel, the single most significant impact on women's liberation. It includes interesting anecdotes and never before...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1560727268
• ISBN13: 9781560727262
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Troitsa Books
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.