An autobiography of champion long-distance swimmer Lynne Cox recounting her early years working with an Olympic coach, breaking world records swimming the English Channel at ages fifteen and sixteen, and her amazing one-mile swim to Antarctica.
Distance swimmer Lynne Cox describes the challenges of swimming across the English Channel, the Bering Strait, the Strait of Magellan, Cook Strait in New Zealand, and in the cold waters of the Antarctic.
Distance swimmer Lynne Cox describes her emotional and spiritual need to swim and about the mythical act of swimming itself, and chronicles some of her more memorable swims.