Excerpt from How to Swim Australia, in the year Of our Lord 18 - but look at the pictures in this book and figure it out for yourself. My father was a native Australian, and my mother Alsatian French. I am not a sea cap tain's daughter nor did I come Of fisher folk. In fact, my mother was a musician and in the days Of my childhood conducted the Australian Musi cal Conservatory, and while there Nellie Mitchell, the great Melba, took instruction under her. Later mother became one Of Paris's greatest pianists. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.