Name: Tom Longboat
SKU: 25216200
Price: 495.00 TWD
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Author: Kidd, Bruce
ISBN: 9781550418385

Type

Physical Book

Author

Bruce Kidd

Publisher

Fitzhenry & Whiteside

Year

2004

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.5x16.8x0.4 cm

Weight

0.13 kg.

ISBN

1550418386

ISBN13

9781550418385

Synopsis "Tom Longboat"

From the rural back roads near his home on the Six Nations Reserve to the track of a crowd-packed Madison Square Garden, Tom Longboat raced his way to fame as the greatest distance runner Canada has even known. The tall Onondaga athlete captured the hearts of racing fans everywhere during the early years of the twentieth century. He was a courageous competitor and served his country during World War I as a dispatch runner, taking messages from post to post under difficult and dangerous conditions. Longboat's amazing career as world champion long-distance runner included spectacular races in Canada, the 1907 Boston Marathon, the 1908 Olympic Marathon, and many one-on-one races with the world's top professional runners. Thousands would gather to watch the famous Canadian shatter records. Yet for all his fame and excellence, Tom Longboat had to struggle against the vicious racism of his age. In his biography of Longboat, long-distance runner Bruce Kidd gives an insider's view of the life of a great athlete in the context of Canadian social history.

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