In 1926, before skirt lengths inched above the knee and before anyone was ready to accept that a girl could check herself physically, a plucky American teenager named Trudy Ederle captured the imagination from the world when she became the 1st female to swim the English Channel. It had been, and still is, a feat even more incredible and uncommon than scaling Mount Everest. Upon her go back to america, ‘Trudy of America’ became the most well-known woman in the world. And just as quickly, she vanished from the general public eye. A Arranged against the background from the roaring 1920s, Young Woman and the ocean may be the dramatic and inspiring story of Ederleas quest for a goal nobody believed feasible, and the price she paid. As soon as Trudy set foot on property, triumphant, she acquired shattered centuries of stereotypes and opened up doors for decades of females to come. A truly magnetic and often misunderstood character whose story is largely neglected, Trudy Ederle comes alive in these pages through Glenn Stoutas exhaustive new research.