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Author:

Stout, Glenn, 1958-

Title:

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

Publisher:

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

xiii, 336 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Ederle, Gertrude,--1906-2003.
Swimmers--United States--Biography.
Women swimmers--United States--Biography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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:

In 1926, a plucky American teenager named Trudy Ederle captured the imagination of the world when she became the first woman to swim the English Channel. Stout offers the dramatic and inspiring story of Ederle's pursuit of a goal no one believed possible, and the price she paid.

ISBN:

0618858687
9780618858682

OCLC:

(OCoLC)288377749

LCCN:

2008053370

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

CBPF522 -- Coralville Public Library (Coralville)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)