Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer by Lynne Cox

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	• Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer Lynne Cox Harvest Books, 2005 - 384 pages average customer review:based on 47 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Inspiring!

This book was great... an awesome person who has done amazing things. You cant get over the crazy abilities the author has and the determination to succeed!

Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer by Lynne Cox

The most exotic descriptions of planetary waters ever experienced by a human female...Cox writes of swimming through Icelandic waters that stream from volcanic fissures and mix with glacial melt so that it feels as if her body is moving across liquid guitar strings...swimming through 38 degrees into 90 degrees then back into 38....Remarkable, astounding ferocity of will...fiercely visionary in her solo quests to swim all flavors (and terrors) of open waters and call forth the highest aspects of human nature...connectivity without borders of any kind. Maybe her greatest strength. Lynne Cox absolutely refuses to acknowlege pseudo human imposed limits, boundaries.....anywhere, anytime. Xtreme swimming adventures that are breathtaking in scope, risk and accomplishment.

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Engaging story of setting and achieving personal goals

This story is not only impressive in the athletic achievement; it is noteworthy that she refuses to abandon her goals even when faced with the impenetrable wall of the Kremlin's closed border mindset.

Well worth reading.

BRRRR

For the first 150+ pages I was intrigued with Ms.Cox's swims.....her amazing endurance and determination. But then...page after page after page....more or less the same....far more than I ever needed or wanted to know about long distance swimming particularly in icy cold waters. When.....at the last chapter...she actually did swim in Antartica waters, although I was sitting in my warm office, I shivered.

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Rather disappointing

Based on the other reviews, I was quite excited about reading this book as I generally enjoy books about athletic exploits by unusual athletes. However, Lynne Cox never quite explained why she was doing what she did. By the time she was swimming to Antarctica, I was left asking why??

Unlike, say, Lance Armstrong's book, Lynne lacked a central goal, and so the book was really a series of short stories about the various swims she tackled. As one other reviewer pointed out, it became somewhat repetitive. The early stories about swimming in California and the English Channel were to me more interesting simply because it was the first time I heard the tale.

The book isn't bad, but it's also not great.

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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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