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Hot Coffee by Moonlight: the Birth of Marathon Swimming. Part 1 – Agnes Beckwith & Captain Webb’s First Channel Attempt

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Kathy Watkin’s book The Crossing, (reviewed here), is the only currently available biography of Captain Matthew Webb. It is required reading for any English Channel Aspirant and certainly for anyone interested in the history of the sport of swimming as a whole, not just Channel swimming. Yet those of us who are familiar with detailed accounts of solo swims,…

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