America's Champion Swimmer: Gertrude Ederle (精装)
分類: 图书,进口原版书,Children's Books(儿童图书),People & Places(人物与地点),Biographies,
品牌: David A. AdlerTerry Widener
基本信息出版社:HARCOURT BRACE & CO (2000年3月1日)精装:32页正文语种:英语ISBN:0152019693条形码:9780152019693产品尺寸及重量:23.7 x 28.8 x 0.9 cm ; 427 gASIN:0152019693
商品描述内容简介Trudy Ederle loved to swim. And she was determined to be the best. At seventeen Trudy won three medals at the 1924 Olympics, in Paris. By the time she turned nineteen, Trudy had set twenty-nine U.S. and world records. But what she planned to do next had never been done--by a woman. She would tackle the most difficult swim of all time: the twenty-one miles of cold, choppy water that separate England from France. Trudy's historic fourteen-hour swim across the English Channel set a world record. She defied those who said it couldn't be done. And with her courage and endurance, Trudy Ederle became a symbol for women everywhere.-By the award-winning team that created" Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man "-Includes a historical author's note -Features one of the most celebrated female athletes of the century媒体推荐Describes the life and accomplishments of Gertrude Ederle, the first woman to swim the English Channel and a figure in the early women's rights movement.