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A Time Magazine MustRead Book of 2020A Best Book of the Season: BuzzFeed * Bustle * San Francisco ChronicleA Best Book of the Year: NPR's Book Concierge * Washington Independent Review of BooksA fascinating and beautifully written love letter to water. I was enchanted by this book.' Rebecca Skloot, bestselling author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta LacksAn immersive, unforgettable, and eyeopening perspective on swimmingand on human behavior itself.We swim in freezing Arctic waters and piranhainfested rivers to test our limits. We swim for pleasure, for exercise, for healing. But humans, unlike other animals that are drawn to water, are not naturalborn swimmers. We must be taught. Our evolutionary ancestors learned for survival; now, in the twentyfirst century, swimming is one of the most popular activities in the world.Why We Swim is propelled by stories of Olympic champions, a Baghdad swim club that meets in Saddam Husseins palace pool, modernday Japanese samurai swimmers, and even an Icelandic fisherman who improbably survives a wintry sixhour swim after a shipwreck. New York Times contributor Bonnie Tsui, a swimmer herself, dives into the deep, from the San Francisco Bay to the South China Sea, investigating what it is about water that seduces us, despite its dangers, and why we come back to it again and again.
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