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　　At age fourteen, she swam twenty-six miles from Catalina

Island to the California mainland.

At ages fifteen and sixteen, she broke the men’s and women’s

world records for swimming the English Channel—a thirty-three-mile

crossing in nine hours, thirty-six minutes.

At eighteen, she swam the twenty-mile Cook Strait between North

and South Islands of New Zealand, was caught on a massive swell,

found herself after five hours farther from the finish than when

she started, and still completed the swim.

She was the first to swim the Strait of Magellan, the most

treacherous three-mile stretch of water in the world.

The first to swim the Bering Strait—the channel that forms the

boundary line between the United States and Russia—from Alaska to

Siberia, thereby opening the U.S.-Soviet border for the first time

in forty-eight years, swimming in thirty-eight-degree water in

four-foot waves without a shark cage, wet suit, or lanolin

grease.

The first to swim the Cape of Good Hope (a shark emerged from the

kelp, its jaws wide open, and was shot as it headed straight for

her).

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.

She has a photographic memory of her swims. She tells us how she

conceived of, planned, and trained for each, and re-creates for us

the experience of swimming (almost) unswimmable bodies of water,

including her most recent astonishing one-mile swim to Antarctica

in thirty-two-degree water without a wet suit. She tells us how,

through training and by taking advantage of her naturally plump

physique, she is able to create more heat in the water than she

loses.

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.

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　　Lynne Cox was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and grew up in

Los Alamitos, California. She received her B.A. from the University

of California at Santa Barbara. Cox was named Los Angeles

Times Woman of the Year in 1975, inducted into the Swimming

Hall of Fame in 2000, and honored with a lifetime achievement award

from U.C. Santa Barbara. Her articles have appeared in The New

Yorker, Los Angeles Times Magazine, and European Car

Magazine. Cox lives in Los Alamitos, California.

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　　Just about every other person in the world seems like an

unfocused dilettante compared to long-distance swimming legend

Lynne Cox. Soon At the age of 14, after several years of training

hard in pools and the open sea, she was swimming the 26 mile

stretch from Catalina Island to the coast of California. A year

after that, she surpassed a lifelong goal by not only swimming the

English Channel but setting a new men's and women's record in the

process. Rather than be satisfied, Cox aimed still higher,

conquering the Cook Strait in New Zealand, the Strait of Magellan

and, the Cape of Good Hope, none of which had been swum before.

Being the first to swim the Bering Sea from Alaska to what was then

the Soviet Union is perhaps Cox's most impressive achievement,

requiring a phenomenal amount of physical strength and endurance to

withstand the chilly waters and diplomatic persistence to gain

permission from Gorbachev during the Cold War. Swimming to

Antarctica is Cox's remarkably detailed account of her major

swims and all that went right and wrong with them. While there are

plenty of highs, as one might expect in a memoir by so impressive

an athlete, all is not sunshine and roses for Cox. She overcomes

extreme physical hardship, predatory sharks, and a swim through a

sewage-soaked Nile while suffering from dysentery. There is plenty

in Swimming to Antarctica to encourage even non-swimmers to

work hard to achieve the seemingly impossible, but Cox, a skilled

and highly readable writer, sticks to the swimming, leading the

reader by example. For thrills and inspiration, it's hard to find

anyone better than Lynne Cox.