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 ...

'A jewel of a book, a paean to the wonders of water and our place within it' James Nestor, bestselling ...

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

Explores the nature and appeal of swimming, from the history of the strokes to aspects of modern Olympic competition, as ...

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

Choose a stroke and get paddling through the human history of swimming! From man's first recorded dip into what's now ...

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

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

"On September 2, 2013, at the age of 64, Diana Nyad emerged onto the shores of Key West after completing a 110 mile, 53 hour, ...

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

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

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

On October 20, 1923, at New York's Belmont Park, Kentucky Derby champion Zev toed the starting line alongside Papyrus, winner of England's ...

A New York Times Bestseller A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2020 Named a Best Book of 2020 by NPR “A ...

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

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

Swim better—and enjoy every lap—with Total Immersion, a guide to improving your swimming from an expert with more ...

Prepare to peek into the mind of a champion, known as the most decorated Olympian of all time with 28 medals, ...

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

It's South Africa 1990. Two major events are about to happen: the release of Nelson Mandela and, more importantly, it's Spud ...

New York Times bestselling psychologist Dr. Meg Jay uses real stories from real lives to provide smart, compassionate, and constructive ...

“[A] kaleidoscopic narrative . . . Tenacious, wildly original, and full of insight.” —San Francisco Chronicle “An alluring, atmospheric debut.” —People A Belletrist ...

This business classic features straight-talking advice you’ll never hear in school. Featuring a new foreword by Ariel Emanuel and ...

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

Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development, to healthcare, to education and public policy, we rely on ...

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

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING PHENOMENON More than 6 million copies sold A Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick A ...

Outlines a comprehensive training program for swimmers, covering warming up, cooling down, training for specific strokes, building endurance, core stability, ...

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

Lynne Cox has set open water swimming records across the world, and now she has focused her decades-long experience and ...

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

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

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 ...

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

“The perfect summer read” (USA TODAY) begins with a shocking tragedy that results in three generations of the Adler family ...

A literary landmark: the biggest, most ambitious anthology of black poetry ever published, gathering 250 poets from the colonial period to ...

The gripping, twisty psychological suspense from the author of the Sunday Times top 5 bestseller Our House 'Exquisitely written and addictively ...

I wanted to know what they were experiencing, and why to us they feel so compelling, and so-close. This time ...