Lynne Cox

A noted long-distance swimmer with a love for cold water describes her record-breaking English Channel crossing, her 1987 swim across the Bering Strait, and exploits in the Straits of Magellan, Lake Baikal, and Antarctica.

Tales of a Long-distance Swimmer

Swimming to Antarctica

Andrea Badgley

This was a fascinating read, especially since the author swam a mile in 32° water without a wetsuit, when I can barely crawl into 67° sheets without shivering and carrying on. Lynne Cox is hugely inspiring, and I never knew that her swim across the Bering Strait was so influential in improving relations between the US and the Soviet Union. I only gave the book 3 stars because though I understand how significant each swim was for Lynne, it ultimately became repetitive, reading about swim after swim in increasingly harsher and colder conditions. Worth reading to get a glimpse into the icy, cold water world from someone who was intimately *in* it. The Glacier Bay swim was my favorite.

Swimming to Antarctica Tales of a Long-distance Swimmer

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