Trudys Big Swim: How Gertrude Ederle Swam the English Channel and Took the World by Storm Macy Sue
Trudys Big Swim: How Gertrude Ederle Swam the English Channel and Took the World by Storm Macy Sue On the morning of August 6, 1926, Gertrude Ederle stood in her bathing suit on the beach at Cape…
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Trudys Big Swim: How Gertrude Ederle Swam the English Channel and Took the World by Storm Macy Sue
On the morning of August 6, 1926, Gertrude Ederle stood in her bathing suit on the beach at Cape Gris-Nez, France, and faced the churning waves of the English Channel. Lyrical text, stunning illustrations and fascinating back matter put the reader right alongside Ederle in her bid to be the first woman to swim the Channel--and contextualizes her record-smashing victory as a defining moment in sports history. Twenty-one miles across the perilous waterway, the English coastline beckoned.
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