Why
We Swim
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A
Best Book of the Season: BuzzFeed
“A
fascinating and beautifully written love letter to water. I was enchanted by
this book." —Rebecca Skloot, bestselling author of The Immortal Life of
Henrietta Lacks
An
immersive, unforgettable, and eye-opening perspective on swimming—and on human
behavior itself.
We swim in freezing Arctic
waters and piranha-infested rivers to test our limits. We swim for pleasure,
for exercise, for healing. But humans, unlike other animals that are drawn to
water, are not natural-born swimmers. We must be taught. Our evolutionary ancestors
learned for survival; now, in the twenty-first century, swimming is one of the
most popular activities in the world.
Why We Swim is propelled by
stories of Olympic champions, a Baghdad swim club that meets in Saddam
Hussein’s palace pool, modern-day Japanese samurai swimmers, and even an
Icelandic fisherman who improbably survives a wintry six-hour swim after a
shipwreck. New York Times contributor Bonnie Tsui, a swimmer herself, dives
into the deep, from the San Francisco Bay to the South China Sea, investigating
what about water—despite its dangers—seduces us and why we come back to it
again and again.
Product
details
File Size :
573 KB
Print Length : 288 pages
Publisher :
Algonquin Books (April 14, 2020)
Publication Date : April 14, 2020
Sold by : Amazon.com Services
LLC
Language : English
ASIN : B07WJ1NH6N
