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The queen of Whale Cay / Kate Summerscale.
LIBRA CT9991.C37 S96 1998
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Summerscale, Kate, 1965-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Carstairs, Joe, 1900-1993.
- Carstairs, Joe.
- Eccentrics and eccentricities--Biography.
- Eccentrics and eccentricities.
- Motorboat racing.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- Lesbians--Biography.
- Lesbians.
- Motorboat racing--Great Britain--History.
- Whale Cay (Nichollstown and Berry Islands District, Bahamas)--Biography.
- Whale Cay (Nichollstown and Berry Islands District, Bahamas).
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 241 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Viking, 1998.
- Summary:
- A marvelous portrait of one of the 20th century's great eccentrics, Marion "Joe" Carstairs. Once the world record holder as the fastest female speedboat racer, Carstairs later led a fascinating, bizarre life that ended in 1993 at the age of 93. 44 photos.
- Notes:
- Map on lining papers.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-241).
- ISBN:
- 0670880183
- OCLC:
- 38504219
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