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Swimming to Antarctica
Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer
Lynne Cox
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Now in paperback, with photos and maps added especially for this new edition, here is the acclaimed life story of a woman whose drive and determination inspire everyone she touches.
Lynne Cox started swimming almost as soon as she could walk. By age sixteen, she had broken all records for swimming the English Channel. Her daring eventually led her to the Bering Strait, where she swam five miles in thirty-eight-degree water in just a swimsuit, cap, and goggles. In between those accomplishments, she became the first to swim the Strait of Magellan, narrowly escaped a shark attack off the Cape of Good Hope, and was cheered across the twenty-mile Cook Strait of New Zealand by dolphins. She even swam a mile in the Antarctic.
Lynne writes the same way she swims, with indefatigable spirit and joy, and shares the beauty of her time in the water with a poet's eye for detail. She has accomplished yet another feat--writing a new classic of sports memoir.
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Praise |
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Thrilling , vivid, and lyrical, an inspiring account of a life of aspiration and adventure.
Oliver Sacks,
"All of [her] superhuman escapades are vividly detailed in Cox's absorbing memoir."
Minneapolis Star Tribune,
"An absorbing, well-written memoir. The paperback edition is even better than the hardcover, with more maps and photographs."
Portland Oregonian,
Gripping reading...Swimming to Antaritica is a portrait of rare and relentless drive.
Sports Illustrated,
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Biography |
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LYNNE COX has set records all over the world for open-water swimming. She was named Los Angeles Times Woman of the Year, inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 2000, honored with a lifetime achievement award from the University of California--Santa Barbara, and worked for six years as a research librarian in Orange County. She lives in Los Alamitos, California.
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General Subjects |
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Sports & Recreation- Swimming
Biography & Autobiography- Sports
Biography & Autobiography- Personal Memoirs
Juvenile Nonfiction- Sports & Recreation/General
Juvenile Nonfiction- Biography & Autobiography/Sports & Recre
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