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| #1811055 in Books | 2008-02-19 | 2008-02-19 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | .32 x1.26 x6.19l,1.08 | File type: PDF | 325 pages||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Interesting look at sports and culture|By breachingtheweb|This book was great. The stories of the four American women who tried to swim the Channel in 1926 are far more interesting than I anticipated -- and the Channel swim itself is much more complicated. The story is well told and compelling. The story touches on so much more than just these women and their challenges -- i|From Publishers Weekly|In 1926, when Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to swim the English Channel, the event was publicized around the world, and she was celebrated as an American hero in a series of public events, including a ticker-tape parade in New Yor
The dramatic story of the four courageous female swimmers who captivated the world in the summer of 1926.
Despite the tensions of a world still recovering from World War I, during the summer of 1926, the story that enthralled the public revolved around four young American swimmers―Gertrude Ederle, Mille Gade, Lillian Cannon, and Clarabelle Barrett―who battled the weather, each other, and considerable odds to become the first woman to c...
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