TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mardini,Yusra
AU  - Le Blond,Josie
TI  - Butterfly: from refugee to Olympian, my story of rescue, hope, and triumph 
SN  - 9781250184405
PY  - 2018///
CY  - New York
PB  - St. Martin's Press
KW  - Mardini, Yusra.
KW  - Olympic Games
KW  - (31st
KW  - 2016
KW  - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
KW  - History
KW  - Women swimmers
KW  - Syria
KW  - Biography
KW  - Autobiographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - "First published in the United Kingdom by Bluebird, an imprint of Pan Macmillan"--Title page verso
N2  - Yusra Mardini fled her native Syria to the Turkish coast in 2015 and boarded a small dinghy full of refugees bound for Greece. When the small and overcrowded boat's engine cut out, it began to sink. Yusra, her sister and two others took to the water, pushing the boat for three and a half hours in open water until they eventually landed on Lesbos, saving the lives of the passengers aboard. Butterfly is the story of that remarkable woman, whose journey started in a war-torn suburb of Damascus and took her through Europe to Berlin and from there to the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro
ER  -