Young woman and the sea : how Trudy Ederle conquered the English Channel and inspired the world / Glenn Stout.
Title:
Young woman and the sea : how Trudy Ederle conquered the English Channel and inspired the world / Glenn Stout.
ISBN:
9780063305397
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Edition:
First Mariner Books paperback edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Mariner Books, 2022.
Physical Description:
xi, 340 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
General Note:
Originally published in hardcover by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2009.
Includes afterword by the author ©2022.
Contents:
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.
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..." -- Page 4 of cover.
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OCLC Number:
on1347428163
Availability:
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