Why We Swim

A Time Magazine Must-Read Book of 2020 A Best Book of the Season: BuzzFeed * Bustle * San Francisco Chronicle A Best Book ...

A Time Magazine Must-Read Book of 2020 A Best Book of the Season: BuzzFeed * Bustle * San Francisco Chronicle A Best Book ...

'An enthusiastic and thoughtful work' The New York Times 'A beautifully written love letter to water and a fascinating story. ...

Swim is a celebration of swimming and the effect it has on our lives. It’s an inquiry into why ...

CHINATOWN, U.S.A.: a state of mind, a world within a world, a neighborhood that exists in more cities ...

Winner of the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award, Autobiography Swimming Studies is a brilliantly original, meditative memoir that explores the ...

From Susan Casey, the New York Times bestselling author of The Devil's Teeth and The Wave, a breathtaking look into ...

From lap pools to ocean pools, rockpools to hot springs, Places We Swim covers the breadth of Australia, bringing you ...

“A blistering plot and crisp writing make The Night Swim an unputdownable read.” –Sarah Pekkanen, bestselling author of The Wife ...

• At age fourteen, she swam twenty-six miles from Catalina Island to the California mainland. • At ages fifteen and sixteen, she ...

‘Roger Deakin is the perfect companion for an invigorating armchair swim. Engaging, thoughtful and candid’ Telegraph Waterlog celebrates the magic ...

From the first recorded dip into what's now the driest spot on earth to the recreational swimmers in your local ...

THE NO.1 BESTSELLER! 'I read it in one sitting, it's a superb book' Eamon Dunphy, The Stand 'An astonishing exposé...

Named A Best Book of 2020 by NPR! “Imagine Call Me By Your Name set in Communist Poland and you'll get ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes ...

Instant New York Times Bestseller The debut collection of poetry from Lili Reinhart, the actress and outspoken advocate for mental ...

From Lisa Congdon, bestselling author of Whatever You Are, Be a Good One, this lovely new book invites readers to ...

Hailed as the paramount expression of metafiction and Irish culture, and uproariously funny and inventive, At Swim-Two-Birds has influenced generations ...

The 25th Anniversary ebook, now with more than 50 images. 'Touching the Void' is the tale of two mountaineer’s harrowing ...

Architecture critic and water baby Christopher Beanland takes a deep dive into the fashionable outdoor swimming scene with Lido, profiling ...

For more than a decade, top coaches have turned to one resource time and time again. Collecting the wisdom, insights, ...

Sea swimming is the great leveller; we’re all the same in a pair of togs. No one minds who ...

A landmark book by marine biologist Wallace J. Nichols on the remarkable effects of water on our health and well-being. ...

Have you ever seen a big wave? One that’s twenty, thirty, forty, even fifty feet tall? Here’s a ...

In Swim Speed Secrets, 4-time Olympian, gold medalist, and triathlon world champion Sheila Taormina reveals the swim technique used by ...

Bob Bowman, best known as the coach for the record-breaking run of Michael Phelps, is one of the most successful ...

"A seven-time Olympic medalist describes her battles with depression, eating disorders and substance abuse in spite of her successful career, ...

The author of the best-selling Born to Run describes his investigation into ancestral training techniques that have enabled Mediterranean athletes ...

A memoir from the open-water swimmer in which "we see Cox finding her way, writing about her transformative journey back ...

From lap pools to ocean pools, harbour pools to waterfalls, Sydney is arguably the best major city in Australia for ...

New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • An Amazon Best Science Book of 2014 • Scientific American Recommended Read “Fascinating, informative, exhilarating.” —...

This is a memoir of intense physical and personal experience, exploring how swimming with seals, gulls and orcas in the ...

The thrill of plunging--or dipping a toe--into open water brings joy, confidence, adventure, and friendship. It can wash away stress ...

The New York Times bestselling inspirational story of impoverished children who transformed themselves into world-class swimmers. In 1937, a schoolteacher on ...

This New York Times bestselling love story about two teens who find each other while standing on the edge is ...

In this spine-tingling tale Ingrid Coleman writes letters to her husband, Gil, about the truth of their marriage, but she ...

This exciting new volume profiles several substantiated cases of female soldiers during the American Civil War, including Sarah Rosetta Wakeman (...

"This book really is about the strong power of female friendship and I loved every moment of it." GoodReads reviewer ...

In Cold Water immerses the reader in the challenges, sights, sounds, triumphs and disappointments of swimming the English Channel--and one ...

A funny and bold account of how women fought their way into the water, and of what they did once ...