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Young woman and the sea : how Trudy Ederle conquered the English Channel and inspired the world / Glenn Stout.
"By age twenty, at the height of the Jazz Age, Trudy Ederle was the most accomplished swimmer in the world. She'd won Olympic gold and set a host of world records. but the greatest challenge remained: the English Channel. Only a few swimmers, none of them women, had ever made the treacherous twenty-one mile crossing. Trudy's failed first attempt seemed to confirm what many naysayers believed: no woman could possibly accomplish such a thing. In 1926, Ederle proved them wrong ... "--Back cover.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780063305397 (trade paperback)
- Physical Description: xi, 340 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
- Edition: First Mariner Books paperback edition.
- Publisher: New York : Mariner Books, 2022.
- Copyright: ©2009
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "Now a major motion picture starring Daisy Ridley"--Back cover. Includes afterword by the author ©2022. Originally published in hardcover by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2009. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Overboard -- The challenge -- Highlands -- The painter -- The Women's Swimming Association -- The crossing -- The teacher -- The channel -- The best girl -- The next man -- Goals -- Rivals -- Records -- Girl in the water -- Trials -- Agony -- Comeback -- Wolffe -- Touched -- Poison -- Cape Gris-Nez -- What for? -- Kingsdown -- Shore -- Swept away. |
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| Subject: | Ederle, Gertrude, 1906-2003. Long distance swimming > English Channel > History. Swimmers > United States > Biography. Women swimmers > United States > Biography. |
| Genre: | Biographies. Personal narratives. |
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