| Record ID | marc_loc_updates/v37.i45.records.utf8:5357136:1833 |
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001 2008053370
003 DLC
005 20091103105550.0
008 081215s2009 mauabf b 001 0beng
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020 $a9780618858682
020 $a0618858687
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn288377749
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050 00 $aGV838.E34$bS76 2009
082 00 $a797.2/1092$222
100 1 $aStout, Glenn,$d1958-
245 10 $aYoung woman and the sea :$bhow Trudy Ederle conquered the English Channel and inspired the world /$cGlenn Stout.
260 $aBoston :$bHoughton Mifflin Harcourt,$c2009.
300 $axiii, 336 p., [8] p. of plates :$bill., map ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aOverboard -- 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.
520 $aIn 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.
600 10 $aEderle, Gertrude,$d1906-2003.
650 0 $aSwimmers$zUnited States$vBiography.
650 0 $aWomen swimmers$zUnited States$vBiography.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0904/2008053370-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0904/2008053370-d.html