Open Water Swimming Manual : An Expert's Survival Guide for Triathletes and Open Water Swimmers
by Lynne Cox
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Lynne Cox was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and grew up in Los Alamitos, California, where she presently lives. She has held open-water swimming records all over the world, for among others, the fastest crossing of the English Channel (at age 15), the Santa Catalina Channel, the twelve-mile Oresund between Denmark and Sweden, and the Kattegut between Norway to Sweden. Cox was the first woman to swim across the Cook Strait in New Zealand, the first to swim across the Strait of Magellan, the Beagle Channel between Argentina and Chile, Lake Baikal in Russia, and around the Cape of Good Hope. In 1987, Cox crossed the Bering Strait to the Soviet Union, and in 2002 swam more than a mile in the 31°F waters off Antarctica. Cox has been inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame. She is the author of Swimming to Antarctica , Grayson , South with the Sun . Her articles have appeared in many publications, among them The New Yorker and the Los Angeles Times Magazine . "The greatest open water swimmer." — Sports Illustrated
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- Open Water Swimming Manual : An Expert's Survival Guide for Triathletes and Open Water Swimmers
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- Lynne Cox
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- Paperback
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- Used - Good
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- ISBN 10
- 0345806093
- ISBN 13
- 9780345806093
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- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Date Published
- 2013
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