Swimming Pretty: The Untold Story of Women in Water by Vicki Valosik

Swimming Pretty: The Untold Story of Women in Water

Vicki Valosik

432 pages first pub 2024 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history sports informative inspiring reflective fast-paced
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"If you're not strong enough to swim fast, you're probably not strong enough to swim 'pretty, '" said a young Esther Williams to impresario Billy Rose. Since the nineteenth century, tensions between beauty and strength, aesthetics and athleticism ...

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