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050 00 $aGV838.C69$bA3 2004
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100 1 $aCox, Lynne,$d1957-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2003104955
245 10 $aSwimming to Antarctica :$btales of a long-distance swimmer /$cLynne Cox.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bA.A. Knopf,$c[2004], ©2004.
300 $aix, 323 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 1 $a"In this extraordinary book, the world's most extraordinary distance swimmer writes about her emotional and spiritual need to swim and about the almost mystical act of swimming itself." "Lynne Cox trained hard from age nine, working with an Olympic coach, swimming five to twelve miles each day in the Pacific. At age eleven, she swam even when hail made the water "like cold tapioca pudding" and was told she would one day swim the English Channel. Four years later - not yet out of high school - she broke the men's and women's world records for the Channel swim. In 1987, she swam the Bering Strait from America to the Soviet Union - a feat that, according to Gorbachev, helped diminish tensions between Russia and the United States." "Lynne Cox's relationship with the water is almost mystical: she describes swimming as flying, and remembers swimming at night through flocks of flying fish the size of mockingbirds, remembers being escorted by a pod of dolphins that came to her off New Zealand." "Lynne Cox has swum the Mediterranean, the three-mile Strait of Messina, under the ancient bridges of Kunning Lake, below the old summer palace of the emperor of China in Beijing. Breaking records no longer interests her. She writes about the ways in which these swims instead became vehicles for personal goals, how she sees herself as the lone swimmer among the waves, pitting her courage against the odds, drawn to dangerous places and treacherous waters that, since ancient times, have challenged sailors in ships."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aCox, Lynne,$d1957-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2003104955
650 0 $aSwimmers$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010115213
650 0 $aLong distance swimming.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85131221
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