A Memoir Across the Atlantic I was born in 1932 in Yorkshire to parents who had survived World War I and had seen England change from an agricultural to an industrial country. A visiting American engineer changed our lives when he asked my mother to leave my father and accompany him to Spain,
Swimming Across: A Memoir
β Scribed by Grove, Andrew S.
- Book ID
- 107544391
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- en-ca
- Weight
- 276 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780446553285
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