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082	0	4	_223 _a797.21092
090			_a797.21092 _bCOX _dG
100			_aCox, Lynne. _d1957- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aSWIMMING TO ANTARTICA : _bTales of a Long-Distance Swimmer / _cLYNNE COX
250			_aFirst Harvest edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bA.A Knopf ; _c2005
264		4	_c©2004
300			_a359 pages : _bphotographs, maps ; _c21 cm.
336			_2rdacontent _atext
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume
500			_aA portion of this work previously appeared in the New Yorker. "A Cold Day in August" previously appeared in the New York Times.
520			_aDecember 1, 2003 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		_aCox, Lynne. _d1957- _vBiography
650	1	0	_aWomen swimmers _vBiography. _zUnited States
650		0	_aLong-distance swimming.
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