In August 1926, a 19-year-old New Yorker named Trudy Ederle became the first woman to swim the English Channel. Only five men had finished the 21-mile trek from Cape Gris-Nez in France to Kingsdown Be.
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"Young Woman and the Sea" dwells on the high hopes for Ederle, who had set over a dozen records in women's swimming, but only won bronze medals by herself.