The Queen of Whale Cay: The Extraordinary Story of ‘Joe' Carstairs, the Fastest Woman on Water by Kate Summerscale

The Queen of Whale Cay: The Extraordinary Story of ‘Joe' Carstairs, the Fastest Woman on Water

Kate Summerscale

256 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction biography lgbtqia+ dark reflective fast-paced
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The Queen Of Whale Cay 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 ...

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