Twenty-One Mile Swim

Twenty-One Mile Swim
Author: Matt Christopher
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 74
Release: 2009-12-19
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0316094552

With remarks about his small stature and poor swimming skills ringing in his ears, the son of Hungarian immigrants begins to train for the 21-mile swim across a nearby lake.

The Twenty-one-mile Swim

The Twenty-one-mile Swim
Author: Matt Christopher
Publisher: Little Brown
Total Pages: 146
Release: 1979-01-01
Genre: Hungarian Americans
ISBN:

With remarks about his small stature and poor swimming skills ringing in his ears, the son of Hungarian immigrants begins to train for the 21-mile swim across a nearby lake.

21 Miles

21 Miles
Author: Jessica Hepburn
Publisher: Unbound Publishing
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2018-05-03
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1783526114

'This book will help so many people' Positive Fertility An Outdoor Swimming Society Book of the Year 2018 After a decade of trying and failing to become a mother, Jessica Hepburn knew it was time to do something different. So she decided to swim twenty-one miles across the English Channel – no easy feat, especially for someone who couldn't swim very well. As the punishing training schedule commenced, Jessica learned you need to put on weight to stave off the cold. This gave her the idea to meet and eat with a collection of inspiring women, and ask them: does motherhood make you happy? From baronesses and professors to award-winners and record-breakers, each of the women had compelling truths to tell about fulfilment and the meaning of motherhood.

Trudy's Big Swim

Trudy's Big Swim
Author: Sue Macy
Publisher: Holiday House
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2017-02-28
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0823438260

On the morning of August 6, 1926, Gertrude Ederle stood in her bathing suit on the beach at Cape Gris-Nez, France, and faced the churning waves of the English Channel. Twenty-one miles across the perilous waterway, the English coastline beckoned. Lyrical text, stunning illustrations and fascinating back matter put the reader right alongside Ederle in her bid to be the first woman to swim the Channel—and contextualizes her record-smashing victory as a defining moment in sports history. Time line, bibliography, source notes.

Find a Way

Find a Way
Author: Diana Nyad
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2016-06-28
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0804172919

NOW THE NETFLIX FILM NYAD, STARRING ANNETTE BENING AND JODIE FOSTER Hillary Clinton said that Find a Way would stay with her through the general election: “When you’re facing big challenges in your life, you can think about Diana Nyad getting attacked by the lethal sting of box jellyfishes. And nearly anything else seems doable in comparison.” When Diana Nyad arrived on the shore of Key West after fifty-three hours of grueling swimming across an epic ocean, she not only set a world record—becoming the first person to swim the shark-infested waters between Cuba and Florida with no cage for protection—she also succeeded in fulfilling a dream she first chased at age twenty-eight and at long last achieved when she was sixty-four. Now, in a riveting memoir, Diana shares a spirited account of what it takes to face one’s fears, engage one’s passions, and never ever give up. For no matter what life may throw at you, or how many times you may have experienced defeat, it is always possible—as long as you commit to living life to the nth degree, no regrets—to “find a way."

Swimming to Antarctica

Swimming to Antarctica
Author: Lynne Cox
Publisher:
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2006
Genre: Long distance swimming
ISBN: 9780753820506

At 14, Lynne Cox swam 26 miles from Catalina Island to the California mainland; at 15 and 16, she broke the men's and women's world records for swimming the English Channel - a 33-mile crossing; at 18, she swam the 20-mile Cook Strait between North and South Islands of New Zealand; she was the first to swim the Strait of Magellan, the most treacherous 3-mile stretch of water in the world; she was first to swim the Bering Strait from Alaska to Siberia, thereby opening the U.S.-Soviet border for the first time in 48 years; and the first to swim the Cape of Good Hope (a shark emerged from the kelp, its jaws wide open, and was shot as it headed straight for her). And finally she is the first person to have swum a mile in 0 degree water in Antarctica.Lynne Cox writes about swimming the way Saint-Exupery wrote about flying, and one sees how swimming, like flying, can stretch the wings of the spirit. A thrilling, modest, vivid and lyrical, account of an inspiring life.

The Winning Stroke

The Winning Stroke
Author: Matt Christopher
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 79
Release: 2009-12-19
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0316094498

When hydrotherapy for an injured leg takes him to the pool on a regular basis, twelve-year-old Jerry finds himself fascinated and challenged by the rigors of competitive swimming.

Association Men

Association Men
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 654
Release: 1927
Genre: Young Men's Christian associations
ISBN:

Young Woman and the Sea

Young Woman and the Sea
Author: Glenn Stout
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 365
Release: 2009
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0618858687

THE PERFECT MILE meet SWIMMING TO ANTARCTICA in this compelling tale of how nineteen-year-old Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to swim the English Channel.

The Natural Superiority of Women

The Natural Superiority of Women
Author: Ashley Montagu
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
Total Pages: 340
Release: 1999
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780761989820

"An iconoclast, Montagu wields his encyclopedic knowledge of physical anthropology to show how women's biological, genetic, and physical characteristics make her not only man's equal, but his superior. Also a humanist, Montagu points to the emotional and social qualities typically ascribed to women and devalued as being central to the attainment of equitable and just social relations."--BOOK JACKET.