The Queen of Whale Cay: The Eccentric Story of Joe Carstairs, Fastest Woman on Water by Kate Summerscale

The Queen of Whale Cay: The Eccentric Story of Joe Carstairs, Fastest Woman on Water

Kate Summerscale

240 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction biography lgbtqia+ dark reflective fast-paced
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‘Joe' Carstairs was born in London in 1900, the daughter of a Scottish colonel and an American heiress. Educated in Connecticut, she returned to Europe in 1916 and drove ambulances for the Women's Legion in France. She deserted her husband at the ...

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