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Young Woman and the Sea
Glenn Stout
How Trudy Ederle Conquered the English Channel and Inspired the World
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
August 2009
On Sale: July 28, 2009
352 pages
ISBN: 0618858687
EAN: 9780618858682
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
In 1926, before skirt lengths inched above the knee and
before anyone was ready to accept that a woman could test
herself physically, a plucky American teenager named Trudy
Ederle captured the imagination of the world when she
became the first woman to swim the English Channel. It was,
and still is, a feat more incredible and uncommon than
scaling Mount Everest. Upon her return to the United
States, "Trudy of America" became the most famous woman in
the world. And just as quickly, she disappeared from the
public eye.
Set against the backdrop of the roaring 1920s, Young Woman
and the Sea is the dramatic and inspiring story of Ederle?s
pursuit of a goal no one believed possible, and the price
she paid. The moment Trudy set foot on land, triumphant,
she had shattered centuries of stereotypes and opened doors
for generations of women to come. A truly magnetic and
often misunderstood character whose story is largely
forgotten, Trudy Ederle comes alive in these pages through
Glenn Stout?s exhaustive new research.
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