Young Woman And The Sea: How Trudy Ederle Conquered The English Channel And Inspired The World - Plot & Excerpts
The Channel THE ENGLISH CHANNEL is like no other body of water in the world. Only twenty-one miles across at its narrowest point between Cape Gris-Nez (Cape Gray Nose) and Dover, those twenty-one miles can be the most treacherous waters in the world. The reason is the tide, for were it not for the tides, swimming the English Channel would have all the allure of swimming back and forth in a backyard pool for half a day or more in the middle of November. It is the tide that makes swimming the Channel so challenging, and the tide that has made swimming the Channel not only one of the most difficult athletic feats on the face of the earth, but also one of the best known and most romantic, a challenge that, once it takes hold of a swimmer, refuses to let go. And to understand the tides one must understand the creation of the Channel itself. The English Channel began in a flood. For eons, since the very first formation of Pangea—the ancient supercontinent that once included virtually the entire land surface of the earth—the land mass that eventually became England was not an island at all.
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