Swimming To Antarctica by Lynne Cox (2004, Hardcover)
Price: $2.50
Condition: Like New Harback with Dust Cover
May be light shelfwear during storage; New/Unused
Cox, one of the world's leading long-distance swimmers, has been a
risk-taker ever since she was nine and chose the freezing water of a
New Hampshire pool in a storm over getting out and doing calisthenics.
After her family moved to California so she and her siblings could
train as speed swimmers, she discovered long-distance ocean swimming.
Her first open-water event, a team race across the Catalina Channel,
convinced her to train for the English Channel. At 15, she broke the
Channel record, and decided she needed a new goal. Up to this point,
Cox's story reads like a fairy tale of hard work, careful planning and
good support, crowned with success. It isn't until she competes in the
Nile River swim that the tale turns ugly-she's swimming in raw sewage
and chemical waste, fending off the dead rats and broken glass, so sick
with dysentery she lands in the hospital. Undeterred, she plans more
ambitious swims-around the shark-infested Cape of Good Hope, across
Alaska's Glacier Bay-to prepare for her big dream, a swim from Alaska
to the Soviet Union across the Bering Strait. While offering herself to
researchers studying the effects of cold on the human body, her
political goals are even larger: to bring countries and peoples
together, using swimming "to establish bridges between borders." Cox
ends her story with her swim to Antarctica, where she finishes the
first Antarctic mile in 32-degree water in 25 minutes. Even though
readers know she survived to tell the tale, it's a thrilling, awesome
and well-written story.
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