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Book

Why we swim

Call Number

  • 797.21 T8826 (CEN)

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Edition

First paperback edition.

Publication Information

Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2021.

Physical Description

287 pages ; 21 cm

Contents

  • SURVIVAL
  • Stone Age swimming
  • You're a land animal
  • Lessons from a sea nomad
  • The human seal
  • WELL-BEING
  • The water cure
  • Seawater in our veins
  • Open water, meet awe
  • COMMUNITY
  • Who gets to swim?
  • A mini United Nations
  • Chaos and order
  • COMPETITION
  • The splash and dash
  • How to swim like an assassin
  • Sharks and minnows
  • Ways of the samurai
  • FLOW
  • A religious exercise
  • The Liquid State
  • From one swimmer to another.

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