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Tsui, Bonnie.
Why We Swim
[Libby].
Algonquin Books,
2020.
swimming pool.
Freestyle.
water.
pond.
Iceland.
swimming.
Evolution.
race.
Recreation.
Lake.
sports.
Ocean.
competition.
Cold Water.
Splash.
backstroke.
wim hof.
Diana Nyad.
Guðlaugur Friðþórsson.
Lynne Cox.
samurai swimming.
swim culture.
swimming in Iceland.
cold swimming.
cold water swimming.
10000 years of swimming.
Howard Means.
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Health & Fitness.
History.
Sports & Recreations.
Nonfiction.
HTML:<b>A <i>Time</i> Magazine Must-Read Book of 2020</b><br /> <b>A Best Book of the Season: <i>BuzzFeed</i> * <i>Bustle </i>* <i>San Francisco Chronicle</i><br /> A Best Book of the Year: <i>NPR's Book Concierge</i> * <i>Washington Independent Review of Books</i><br /> “A fascinating and beautifully written love letter to water. I was enchanted by this book." —Rebecca Skloot, bestselling author of <i>The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks</i></b><br /> <b>An immersive, unforgettable, and eye-opening perspective on swimming—and on human behavior itself.</b><br />  <br /> 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.<br /> <i>Why We Swim</i> 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. <i>New York Times</i> contributor Bonnie Tsui, a swimmer herself, dives into the deep, from the San Francisco Bay to the South China Sea, investigating what it is about water that seduces us, despite its dangers, and why we come back to it again and again.<br />  .
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