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

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

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Author / Creator:	Stout, Glenn, 1958-
Imprint:	Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.
Description:	xiii, 336 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Ederle, Gertrude, -- 1906-2003. Ederle, Gertrude, -- 1906-2003. Swimmers -- United States -- Biography. Women swimmers -- United States -- Biography. Swimmers. Women swimmers. United States. Biography.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7843017

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ISBN:	9780618858682 0618858687
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.

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Call Number:	GV838.E34 S76 2009
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