Screen LibrarySwimming to Antarctica：tales of a long-distance swimmer
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| Published: |
Harcourt,
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| Publisher Address: | Orlando, Fla. |
| Publication Dates: | 2005. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Harvest book |
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| Carrier Form: | ix, 359 p.: ill., maps ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780156031301 0156031302 |
| Index Number: | K837 |
| CLC: | K837.125.47 |
| Call Number: | K837.125.47/C877 |
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Originally published: New York : A.A. Knopf, c2004. Prologue: Cold day in August -- Beginnings -- Leaving home -- Open water -- Twenty-six miles across the sea -- English Channel -- White Cliffs of Dover -- Homecoming -- Invitation to Egypt -- Lost in the fog -- Cook Strait, New Zealand -- Human research subject -- Strait of Magellan -- Around the Cape of Good Hope -- Around the world in eighty days -- Glacier bay -- Facing the bomb -- A-team -- Mind-blowing -- Debate -- Across the Bering strait -- Success -- Siberia's Gold Medal -- Swimming to Antarctica -- Afterword. Here is the joyful, inspirational memoir of swimmer Lynne Cox. By age sixteen, she had broken all records for English Channel swims, so she set her goals even higher: 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. Her daring eventually led her to the thirty-eight-degree waters of the Bering Strait, which she crossed in her usual outfit -- just a swimsuit, cap, and goggles. She has even swum a mile in the iceberg-choked waters of the Antarctic. With a poet's eye for detail, Cox shares the beauty of her time in the water in this new classic of sports memoir. |