[EPUB] Why We Swim by Bonnie Tsui

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Publisher: Algonquin Books
Genres: Nonfiction Books, Memoir Books, Science Books
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Pages: 288 pages
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN10: 1616207868
ISBN13: 9781616207861
Tags: Nonfiction eBooks, Memoir eBooks, Science eBooks, epub eBooks, Free epub
Language: en
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.
 

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