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 Channel--and contextualizes her
record-smashing victory as a defining moment in sports history. Time
line, bibliography, source notes.