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.
Item Details
ISBN:
9780618858682
9780063271685
Description: xiii, 336 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Notes:
Publisher, pagination, and printing dates may vary.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 320-328) 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.
LCCN: 2008053370
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.
