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The Queen of Whale Cay: The Extraordinary Story of ‘Joe’ Carstairs, the Fastest Woman on Water
Kate Summerscale
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Description for The Queen of Whale Cay: The Extraordinary Story of ‘Joe’ Carstairs, the Fastest Woman on Water
Paperback. The extraordinary stroy of 'Joe' Carstairs, the fastest woman on water The Sunday Times bestseller Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 16. Weight in Grams: 222. The Extraordinary Story of 'Joe' Carstairs, the Fastest Woman on Water. 240 pages, Illustrations. The extraordinary stroy of 'Joe' Carstairs, the fastest woman on water The Sunday Times bestseller. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: BGH. Dimension: 197 x 127 x 16. Weight: 220.
_______________ 'A biography that sparkles with enthusiastic research and empathetic writing' - Sunday Times 'A small jewel of a biography' - The New Yorker 'A fascinating, hilarious and deliciously subversive book' - Literary Review _______________ THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Born in 1900 to a promiscuous American oil heiress and a British army captain, Marion Barbara Carstairs realised very early on that she was not like most little girls. Liberated by war work in WWI, Marion reinvented herself as Joe, and quickly went on to establish herself as a leading light of the ... Read more
_______________ 'A biography that sparkles with enthusiastic research and empathetic writing' - Sunday Times 'A small jewel of a biography' - The New Yorker 'A fascinating, hilarious and deliciously subversive book' - Literary Review _______________ THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Born in 1900 to a promiscuous American oil heiress and a British army captain, Marion Barbara Carstairs realised very early on that she was not like most little girls. Liberated by war work in WWI, Marion reinvented herself as Joe, and quickly went on to establish herself as a leading light of the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408830512
SKU
V9781408830512
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-2
About Kate Summerscale
KATE SUMMERSCALE is the author of the number one bestselling The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2008, a Richard & Judy Book Club pick and adapted into a major ITV drama. Her first book, the bestselling The Queen of Whale Cay, won a Somerset Maugham award and was shortlisted for the Whitbread biography ... Read more
Reviews for The Queen of Whale Cay: The Extraordinary Story of ‘Joe’ Carstairs, the Fastest Woman on Water
She was crazy and brave and her story is jaw-droppingly amazing ... Great stuff
Val Hennessy, Daily Mail
A wonderful account of a truly extraordinary life
Mail on Sunday
A biography that sparkles with enthusiastic research and empathetic writing
Sunday Times
A small jewel of a biography
The New Yorker
A fascinating, ... Read more
Val Hennessy, Daily Mail
A wonderful account of a truly extraordinary life
Mail on Sunday
A biography that sparkles with enthusiastic research and empathetic writing
Sunday Times
A small jewel of a biography
The New Yorker
A fascinating, ... Read more