Trudy's Big Swim: How Gertrude Ederle Swam the English Channel and Took the World by Storm by Matt Collins, Sue Macy

Trudy's Big Swim: How Gertrude Ederle Swam the English Channel and Took the World by Storm

Matt Collins, Sue Macy

36 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction biography sports informative inspiring medium-paced

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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. Twenty-one miles across the perilous waterway, the English coastline beckoned. ...

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