The Hero of the Humber; Or, The History of the Late Mr. John Ellerthorpe

"The Hero of the Humber…" is a biography of John Ellerthorpe, a man famed for his exploits as a lifesaver in swimming. It gives a record of the remarkable incidents in his career as a sailor; his conversion and Christian usefulness; his unequalled skill as a swimmer, and his exploits on the water, with a minute account of his deeds of daring in saving, with his own hands, on separate occasions, upwards of forty persons from death by drowning, together with an account of his later life and eventual death.