SWIMMING TO ANTARTICA : (Record no. 172200)
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| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20190416104616.0 |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780156031301 |
| Terms of availability | RM 0.00 |
| Qualifying information | paperback. |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | PPAK |
| Language of cataloging | eng |
| Transcribing agency | PPAK |
| Description conventions | rda |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Edition number | 23 |
| Classification number | 797.21092 |
| 090 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED LC-TYPE CALL NUMBER (OCLC); LOCAL CALL NUMBER (RLIN) | |
| Classification number (OCLC) (R) ; Classification number, CALL (RLIN) (NR) | 797.21092 |
| Feature heading | COX |
| Feature heading | G |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Cox, Lynne. |
| Dates associated with a name | 1957- |
| Relator term | author. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | SWIMMING TO ANTARTICA : |
| Remainder of title | Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | LYNNE COX |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | First Harvest edition. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | New York : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | A.A Knopf ; |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2005 |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | ©2004 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 359 pages : |
| Other physical details | photographs, maps ; |
| Dimensions | 21 cm. |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Source | rdacontent |
| Content type term | text |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE | |
| Source | rdamedia |
| Media type term | unmediated |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE | |
| Source | rdacarrier |
| Carrier type term | volume |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | A portion of this work previously appeared in the New Yorker. "A Cold Day in August" previously appeared in the New York Times. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | December 1, 2003<br/>Cox, one of the world's leading long-distance swimmers, has been a risk-taker ever since she was nine and chose the freezing water of a New Hampshire pool in a storm over getting out and doing calisthenics. After her family moved to California so she and her siblings could train as speed swimmers, she discovered long-distance ocean swimming. Her first open-water event, a team race across the Catalina Channel, convinced her to train for the English Channel. At 15, she broke the Channel record, and decided she needed a new goal. Up to this point, Cox's story reads like a fairy tale of hard work, careful planning and good support, crowned with success. It isn't until she competes in the Nile River swim that the tale turns ugly—she's swimming in raw sewage and chemical waste, fending off the dead rats and broken glass, so sick with dysentery she lands in the hospital. Undeterred, she plans more ambitious swims—around the shark-infested Cape of Good Hope, across Alaska's Glacier Bay—to prepare for her big dream, a swim from Alaska to the Soviet Union across the Bering Strait. While offering herself to researchers studying the effects of cold on the human body, her political goals are even larger: to bring countries and peoples together, using swimming "to establish bridges between borders." Cox ends her story with her swim to Antarctica, where she finishes the first Antarctic mile in 32-degree water in 25 minutes. Even though readers know she survived to tell the tale, it's a thrilling, awesome and well-written story. (Jan.) |
| 600 1# - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Cox, Lynne. |
| Dates associated with a name | 1957- |
| Form subdivision | Biography |
| 650 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Women swimmers |
| Form subdivision | Biography. |
| Geographic subdivision | United States |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Long-distance swimming. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type | Book |
| Withdrawn | Not for loan | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Koha item type |
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| Perpustakaan Alor Setar | Pinjaman Dewasa | 10/11/2019 | 797.21092 COX | A00738435 | 10/11/2019 | Book |