10 Swimming Books for Christmas
Coach Penny Wilkin recommends 10 good reads for swimmers this Christmas Leap in, A Woman, some waves and the will to swim, Alexandra Heminsley From the ignominy of getting into a wetsuit to the triumph of swimming from Kefallinia to Ithaca, in becoming a swimmer, Alexandra learns to appreciate her body and still her mind. 2. Swimming to Antarctica, Lynne Cox 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 3. Blue Mind, Wallace Nichol s Why are we drawn to the ocean each summer? Why does being near water set our mind