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    Young Woman and the Sea: How Trudy Ederle Conquered the English Channel and Inspired the World
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    Young Woman and the Sea: How Trudy Ederle Conquered the English Channel and Inspired the World

    Written by Glenn Stout

    Narrated by Andrea Gallo

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    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. A Set against the backdrop of the roaring 1920s, Young Woman and the Sea is the dramatic and inspiring story of Ederleas 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 Stoutas exhaustive new research.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateSep 16, 2016
    ISBN9781501929366
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    Glenn Stout

    Glenn Stout is a writer, author, and editor, and served as series editor of The Best American Sports Writing, and founding editor of The Year’s Best Sports Writing. He is also the author of Tiger Girl and the Candy Kid, Fenway 1912, Nine Months at Ground Zero, and many other award-winning and best-selling books. He also served as a consultant on the Disney+ film adaptation of Young Woman and the Sea. Stout lives in Lake Champlain in Vermont.

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    • 5/5
      "The Young Woman and the Sea: How Trudy Ederle Conquered the English Channel and Inspired the World" is the story of Trudy Ederle, the first woman to swim the English Channel - but it's more than that.First, a lot of history on swimming. I didn't realize that it's only been in the past 90 years or so that women were taught to swim. For much of Europe's history, swimming was thought to be ungainly and not something proper folks did. Even when men began swimming, it certainly wasn't a sport for women - for one thing, the costume! Horrors! The author recounts incidents in the early 1900s where women were arrested for public nudity while wearing bathing suits on beaches. This fear of women exposing themselves was behind much of the reluctance to see women swimming.Trudy and her sisters were in on the beginnings of women's swimming in the US, and for Trudy the water truly felt like home, partially because she was nearly deaf from a childhood bout with measles.All kinds of interesting history are recounted - men were the first to swim the English channel, often basically naked. It took quite a bit longer for a woman to do it, no doubt in large part due to the fact that many were trying to do it in cumbersome wool "swim dresses." You'll also learn why the English Channel is so difficult to swim: tides, currents, and 60-degree water all play roles.This is a fascinating tail of determination - "girl power" without all the PC feminist hype that abounds today. Highly recommended!
    • 4/5
      Trudy Ederle was the first woman to swim the English Channel, and this is her story. However, it is much more than that. It is also the story, to a lesser degree, of the English Channel, of the acceptance of women athletes, of the acceptance of swimming in general and especially for women. The story opens with a tragedy on the East River. A pleasure boat carrying families caught fire and many died because they didn't know how to swim. I didn't realize that even in the early 20th century, swimming for women was taboo, considered immoral. This tragedy started a movement to teach swimming, if only for safety. Trudy must have been a remarkable young lady. She was strong and athletic, accomplishing what most other swimmers would never be able to do, but she was also very close to her family and a little naive. She was sometimes taken advantage of. She was somewhat shy and also had a hearing impairment that made her uncomfortable in crowds, detrimental to her when she became well known. The story even includes a mystery about her first attempt at crossing the channel. The book was, for the most part, well written, and includes some great photographs. For my taste, there was occasionally a little too much detail, especially about individual swimming events and times. And I think that the title, Young Woman and the Sea, doesn't really do justice to the story even though it is probably a take on Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea. Overall, the book was both informative and entertaining. (The copy I reviewed was an ARC sent to me by a friend, and as such had quite a few typos and editing mistakes that I am assuming were corrected before the final edition was published.)