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The poignant, life-affirming story of a determined boy, a visionary coach, and how the dream of a record-breaking Channel swim became reality. Eltham, South London. 1984: the hot fug of the swimming pool and the slow splashing of a boy learning to swim but not yet wanting to tak…
In public, Mark Tewksbury has always credited the 1976 Olympics as a major inspiration for his becoming an Olympic champion swimmer, but in fact, it was wearing a towel-turban in imitation of his grandmother and swimming in her condo pool that first sparked his love of swimming.…
"Mark Tewksbury faced all the challenges of a high-performance athlete - the discipline, sacrifices, intense pressure, and post-Olympic transition. But he also had to overcome the difficult personal challenge of coming out as a gay man - first to his family and confidants, and t…
"Mark Tewksbury faced all the challenges of a high-performance athlete - the discipline, sacrifices, intense pressure, and post-Olympic transition. But he also had to overcome the difficult personal challenge of coming out as a gay man - first to his family and confidants, and t…
"Mark Tewksbury faced all the challenges of a high-performance athlete - the discipline, sacrifices, intense pressure, and post-Olympic transition. But he also had to overcome the difficult personal challenge of coming out as a gay man - first to his family and confidants, and t…
The author shares his experiences with wild swimming, revealing how the practice allowed him to confront buried issues in his life while experiencing the natural world in a powerful way.
The author describes how, while training for a long-distance swim off the coast of California, she encountered a baby gray whale that had become separated from its mother and had been following her instead, and relates her efforts to find the baby's mother.
The author describes how, while training for a long-distance swim off the coast of California, she encountered a baby gray whale that had become separated from its mother and had been following her instead, and relates her efforts to find the baby's mother.
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, sh…
Provides a comprehensive look at the international phenomenon of Masters swimming, its opportunities, rewards and challenges. This work is useful for adult swimmers of various ages and levels of experience, as well as those interested in coaching Masters swimming. It covers vari…
Masters Swimming - A Manual, written jointly by a Masters coach and a Masters swimmer, provides an exciting and comprehensive look at the international phenomenon of Masters swimming, its opportunities, rewards and challenges. Adult swimmers of all ages and levels of experience,…
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"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 m…
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 bec…