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Young woman and the sea : how Trudy Ederle conquered the English Channel and inspired the world  Cover Image Book Book

Young woman and the sea : how Trudy Ederle conquered the English Channel and inspired the world / Glenn Stout.

Stout, Glenn, 1958- (author.).

Summary:

"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.

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.
Subject: Ederle, Gertrude, 1906-2003.
Long distance swimming > English Channel > History.
Swimmers > United States > Biography.
Women swimmers > United States > Biography.
Genre: Biographies.
Personal narratives.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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504 . ‡aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
50500. ‡tOverboard -- ‡tThe challenge -- ‡tHighlands -- ‡tThe painter -- ‡tThe Women's Swimming Association -- ‡tThe crossing -- ‡tThe teacher -- ‡tThe channel -- ‡tThe best girl -- ‡tThe next man -- ‡tGoals -- ‡tRivals -- ‡tRecords -- ‡tGirl in the water -- ‡tTrials -- ‡tAgony -- ‡tComeback -- ‡tWolffe -- ‡tTouched -- ‡tPoison -- ‡tCape Gris-Nez -- ‡tWhat for? -- ‡tKingsdown -- ‡tShore -- ‡tSwept away.
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