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Tom Longboat Running Against the Wind
$14.95
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Format:
Paperback
Text Content Territories:
Indigenous Canadian; First Nations; Haudenosaunee (Iroquois); Onondaga;
Status: Available
Other Categories:
Teen Books | Indigenous Peoples | Indigenous Peoples in Canada | First Nations | Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) | Onondaga | English Language Arts | Non-Fiction | Biographies | Biographies | Indigenous Peoples | Indigenous Peoples in Canada | First Nations | Social Studies
Synopsis:
Tom Longboat was one of the greatest marathon runners of all time and one of the best known athletes in the western world in the early 20th Century. Longboat was an Onondaga who grew up on the Six Nations reserve near Brantford, Ontario. He was an astonishing long-distance runner as an amateur, he set records as a professional, and he served as a dispatch runner during World War One. This book tells the story of one of Canada's greatest athletes.
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