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Swimming to Antarctica:
Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer
by Lynne Cox
In this incredible new 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. At age fourteen, she swam from Catalina Island to California. At ages fifteen and sixteen, she broke the men’s and women’s world records for swimming the English Channel. She was also the first person to swim the Strait of Magellan, the Bering Strait, and Cape of Good Hope.Open Water Swimming
A Complete Guide for Distance Swimmers and Triathletes
by Penny Lee Dean
An excellent book written by perhaps the most successful swimmer of all time. Penny Lee Dean, a swimming legend and world-record holder in 13 events, shares her unique knowledge of racing and solo swims. From innovative stroke techniques to navigation strategies, her insights are invaluable to long-distance swimmers, marathon swimmers, triathletes, and their coaches.The Fit Swimmer
120 Workouts & Training Tips
by Marianne Brems
The Fit Swimmer helps you determine your personal fitness level, provides stroke technique, teaches you how to use the clock, describes using various training equipment, provides aerobic training information, helps to create productive and interesting workouts, and assists in improving your cardiovascular fitness, muscle tone, and flexibility. It provides help with workouts ranging from the beginning swimmer to advanced workouts for accomplished swimmers. It also contains a very valuable section on Open Water Swimming.
Wind, Waves, and Sunburn
A Brief History of Marathon Swimming
by Conrad Wennerberg
If you are interested in the history of Marathon swimming prior to 1974, this is the book for you. The author describes in detail what swimmers went through to accomplish feats like the English Channel, Lake Michigan, and others. He makes you feel as if you're swimming right along with these pioneers of long-distance swimming in the 1950s and 60s as they stroke across some famous bodies of water, all before the advent of modern wetsuits and goggles!The Crossing
The Glorious Tragedy of the First Man to Swim the
English Channel
by Kathy Watson
Born in 1848, learning to swim as a boy in the River Severn, this is the colorful story of Matthew Webb, the first person to swim across the English Channel.Don't see what you want above, please feel free to search Amazon.com with tool provided below.
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