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  • Ederle, Gertrude, 1906-2003.
     
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  • Swimmers -- United States -- Biography.
     
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  • Women swimmers -- United States -- Biography.
     
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    Young woman and the sea : how Trudy Ederle conquered the English Channel and inspired the world / Glenn Stout.
    by Stout, Glenn, 1958-
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    Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.
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  • Ederle, Gertrude, 1906-2003.
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  • Swimmers -- United States -- Biography.
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  • Women swimmers -- United States -- Biography.
  • Electronic Resourcehttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0904/2008053370-b.html
    Electronic Resourcehttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0904/2008053370-d.html
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    9780618858682
    0618858687
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    xiii, 336 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm.
    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.
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    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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    Hawaii State LibraryArt, Music & Recreation797.21092 Ederle StTransit RequestAdd Copy to MyList
    Lihue Public LibraryAdult Nonfiction797.21092 Ederle StChecked InAdd Copy to MyList
    Mililani Public LibraryAdult BiographyB Ederle StChecked InAdd Copy to MyList


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