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Swimming To Antarctica

Swimming To Antarctica

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作者: Lynne Cox 著

出版社: Random House US

出版时间: 2004-01

版次: 1

ISBN: 9780375415074

定价: 216.00

装帧: 精装

开本: 16开

纸张: 胶版纸

页数: 323页

分类: 外文古旧书>英文书>历史

　　At age fourteen, she swam twenty-six miles from CatalinaIsland to the California mainland.

  At ages fifteen and sixteen, she broke the men’s and women’sworld records for swimming the English Channel—a thirty-three-milecrossing in nine hours, thirty-six minutes.

  At eighteen, she swam the twenty-mile Cook Strait between Northand South Islands of New Zealand, was caught on a massive swell,found herself after five hours farther from the finish than whenshe started, and still completed the swim.

  She was the first to swim the Strait of Magellan, the mosttreacherous three-mile stretch of water in the world.

  The first to swim the Bering Strait—the channel that forms theboundary line between the United States and Russia—from Alaska toSiberia, thereby opening the U.S.-Soviet border for the first timein forty-eight years, swimming in thirty-eight-degree water infour-foot waves without a shark cage, wet suit, or lanolingrease.

  The first to swim the Cape of Good Hope (a shark emerged from thekelp, its jaws wide open, and was shot as it headed straight forher).

  In this extraordinary book, the world’s most extraordinarydistance swimmer writes about her emotional and spiritual need toswim and about the almost mystical act of swimming itself.

  Lynne Cox trained hard from age nine, working with an Olympiccoach, swimming five to twelve miles each day in the Pacific. Atage eleven, she swam even when hail made the water “like coldtapioca pudding” and was told she would one day swim the EnglishChannel. Four years later—not yet out of high school—she broke themen’s and women’s world records for the Channel swim. In 1987, sheswam the Bering Strait from America to the Soviet Union—a featthat, according to Gorbachev, helped diminish tensions betweenRussia and the United States.

  Lynne Cox’s relationship with the water is almost mystical: shedescribes swimming as flying, and remembers swimming at nightthrough flocks of flying fish the size of mockingbirds, remembersbeing escorted by a pod of dolphins that came to her off NewZealand.

  She has a photographic memory of her swims. She tells us how sheconceived of, planned, and trained for each, and re-creates for usthe experience of swimming (almost) unswimmable bodies of water,including her most recent astonishing one-mile swim to Antarcticain thirty-two-degree water without a wet suit. She tells us how,through training and by taking advantage of her naturally plumpphysique, she is able to create more heat in the water than sheloses.

  Lynne Cox has swum the Mediterranean, the three-mile Strait ofMessina, under the ancient bridges of Kunning Lake, below the oldsummer palace of the emperor of China in Beijing. Breaking recordsno longer interests her. She writes about the ways in which theseswims instead became vehicles for personal goals, how she seesherself as the lone swimmer among the waves, pitting her courageagainst the odds, drawn to dangerous places and treacherous watersthat, since ancient times, have challenged sailors in ships. 　　Lynne Cox was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and grew up inLos Alamitos, California. She received her B.A. from the Universityof California at Santa Barbara. Cox was named Los AngelesTimes Woman of the Year in 1975, inducted into the SwimmingHall of Fame in 2000, and honored with a lifetime achievement awardfrom U.C. Santa Barbara. Her articles have appeared in The NewYorker, Los Angeles Times Magazine, and European CarMagazine. Cox lives in Los Alamitos, California.
内容简介:
　　At age fourteen, she swam twenty-six miles from CatalinaIsland to the California mainland.

  At ages fifteen and sixteen, she broke the men’s and women’sworld records for swimming the English Channel—a thirty-three-milecrossing in nine hours, thirty-six minutes.

  At eighteen, she swam the twenty-mile Cook Strait between Northand South Islands of New Zealand, was caught on a massive swell,found herself after five hours farther from the finish than whenshe started, and still completed the swim.

  She was the first to swim the Strait of Magellan, the mosttreacherous three-mile stretch of water in the world.

  The first to swim the Bering Strait—the channel that forms theboundary line between the United States and Russia—from Alaska toSiberia, thereby opening the U.S.-Soviet border for the first timein forty-eight years, swimming in thirty-eight-degree water infour-foot waves without a shark cage, wet suit, or lanolingrease.

  The first to swim the Cape of Good Hope (a shark emerged from thekelp, its jaws wide open, and was shot as it headed straight forher).

  In this extraordinary book, the world’s most extraordinarydistance swimmer writes about her emotional and spiritual need toswim and about the almost mystical act of swimming itself.

  Lynne Cox trained hard from age nine, working with an Olympiccoach, swimming five to twelve miles each day in the Pacific. Atage eleven, she swam even when hail made the water “like coldtapioca pudding” and was told she would one day swim the EnglishChannel. Four years later—not yet out of high school—she broke themen’s and women’s world records for the Channel swim. In 1987, sheswam the Bering Strait from America to the Soviet Union—a featthat, according to Gorbachev, helped diminish tensions betweenRussia and the United States.

  Lynne Cox’s relationship with the water is almost mystical: shedescribes swimming as flying, and remembers swimming at nightthrough flocks of flying fish the size of mockingbirds, remembersbeing escorted by a pod of dolphins that came to her off NewZealand.

  She has a photographic memory of her swims. She tells us how sheconceived of, planned, and trained for each, and re-creates for usthe experience of swimming (almost) unswimmable bodies of water,including her most recent astonishing one-mile swim to Antarcticain thirty-two-degree water without a wet suit. She tells us how,through training and by taking advantage of her naturally plumpphysique, she is able to create more heat in the water than sheloses.

  Lynne Cox has swum the Mediterranean, the three-mile Strait ofMessina, under the ancient bridges of Kunning Lake, below the oldsummer palace of the emperor of China in Beijing. Breaking recordsno longer interests her. She writes about the ways in which theseswims instead became vehicles for personal goals, how she seesherself as the lone swimmer among the waves, pitting her courageagainst the odds, drawn to dangerous places and treacherous watersthat, since ancient times, have challenged sailors in ships.
作者简介:
　　Lynne Cox was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and grew up inLos Alamitos, California. She received her B.A. from the Universityof California at Santa Barbara. Cox was named Los AngelesTimes Woman of the Year in 1975, inducted into the SwimmingHall of Fame in 2000, and honored with a lifetime achievement awardfrom U.C. Santa Barbara. Her articles have appeared in The NewYorker, Los Angeles Times Magazine, and European CarMagazine. Cox lives in Los Alamitos, California.

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