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

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. Lyrical text stunning illustrations and fascinating back matter put the reader right alongside Ederle in her bid to be the first woman to swim the Channeland contextualizes her record-smashing victory as a defining moment in sports history. Time line bibliography source notes.