Cecil Healy : a biography / John Devitt and Larry Writer.

Collection type Library
Author Devitt, John, 1937-, author.; Writer, Larry, author.;
Call Number 797.21092 D496c
Document type Monograph
Year 2018. 018.
Pagination 518 pages, [32] unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
Publisher Stoke Hill Press,
Note "The epic tale of Australia's only Olympic gold medallist to die at war"--Cover. Includes bibliographical references (pages 499-506) and index. John Devitt, a two-time Olympic gold medallist, tells the story of Cecil Healy, one of Australia's greatest swimmers and a journalist, surfer, administrator and soldier. Healy swam at the 1906 and 1912 Olympic Games, and won a gold medal at the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden. He was killed in 1918, during World War 1, at the Battle of Mont St Quentin. This biography is published on the centenary of his death.
Place made Concord, NSW :

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