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　　At age fourteen, she swam twenty-six miles from Catalina

Island to the California mainland.

At ages fifteen and sixteen, she broke the men’s and women’s

world records for swimming the English Channel—a thirty-three-mile

crossing in nine hours, thirty-six minutes.

At eighteen, she swam the twenty-mile Cook Strait between North

and South Islands of New Zealand, was caught on a massive swell,

found herself after five hours farther from the finish than when

she started, and still completed the swim.

She was the first to swim the Strait of Magellan, the most

treacherous three-mile stretch of water in the world.

The first to swim the Bering Strait—the channel that forms the

boundary line between the United States and Russia—from Alaska to

Siberia, thereby opening the U.S.-Soviet border for the first time

in forty-eight years, swimming in thirty-eight-degree water in

four-foot waves without a shark cage, wet suit, or lanolin

grease.

The first to swim the Cape of Good Hope (a shark emerged from the

kelp, its jaws wide open, and was shot as it headed straight for

her).

In this extraordinary book, the world’s most extraordinary

distance swimmer writes about her emotional and spiritual need to

swim and about the almost mystical act of swimming itself.

Lynne Cox trained hard from age nine, working with an Olympic

coach, swimming five to twelve miles each day in the Pacific. At

age eleven, she swam even when hail made the water “like cold

tapioca pudding” and was told she would one day swim the English

Channel. Four years later—not yet out of high school—she broke the

men’s and women’s world records for the Channel swim. In 1987, she

swam the Bering Strait from America to the Soviet Union—a feat

that, according to Gorbachev, helped diminish tensions between

Russia and the United States.

Lynne Cox’s relationship with the water is almost mystical: she

describes swimming as flying, and remembers swimming at night

through flocks of flying fish the size of mockingbirds, remembers

being escorted by a pod of dolphins that came to her off New

Zealand.

She has a photographic memory of her swims. She tells us how she

conceived of, planned, and trained for each, and re-creates for us

the experience of swimming (almost) unswimmable bodies of water,

including her most recent astonishing one-mile swim to Antarctica

in thirty-two-degree water without a wet suit. She tells us how,

through training and by taking advantage of her naturally plump

physique, she is able to create more heat in the water than she

loses.

Lynne Cox has swum the Mediterranean, the three-mile Strait of

Messina, under the ancient bridges of Kunning Lake, below the old

summer palace of the emperor of China in Beijing. Breaking records

no longer interests her. She writes about the ways in which these

swims instead became vehicles for personal goals, how she sees

herself as the lone swimmer among the waves, pitting her courage

against the odds, drawn to dangerous places and treacherous waters

that, since ancient times, have challenged sailors in ships.

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　　Lynne Cox was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and grew up in

Los Alamitos, California. She received her B.A. from the University

of California at Santa Barbara. Cox was named Los Angeles

Times Woman of the Year in 1975, inducted into the Swimming

Hall of Fame in 2000, and honored with a lifetime achievement award

from U.C. Santa Barbara. Her articles have appeared in The New

Yorker, Los Angeles Times Magazine, and European Car

Magazine. Cox lives in Los Alamitos, California.

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　　Just about every other person in the world seems like an

unfocused dilettante compared to long-distance swimming legend

Lynne Cox. Soon At the age of 14, after several years of training

hard in pools and the open sea, she was swimming the 26 mile

stretch from Catalina Island to the coast of California. A year

after that, she surpassed a lifelong goal by not only swimming the

English Channel but setting a new men's and women's record in the

process. Rather than be satisfied, Cox aimed still higher,

conquering the Cook Strait in New Zealand, the Strait of Magellan

and, the Cape of Good Hope, none of which had been swum before.

Being the first to swim the Bering Sea from Alaska to what was then

the Soviet Union is perhaps Cox's most impressive achievement,

requiring a phenomenal amount of physical strength and endurance to

withstand the chilly waters and diplomatic persistence to gain

permission from Gorbachev during the Cold War. Swimming to

Antarctica is Cox's remarkably detailed account of her major

swims and all that went right and wrong with them. While there are

plenty of highs, as one might expect in a memoir by so impressive

an athlete, all is not sunshine and roses for Cox. She overcomes

extreme physical hardship, predatory sharks, and a swim through a

sewage-soaked Nile while suffering from dysentery. There is plenty

in Swimming to Antarctica to encourage even non-swimmers to

work hard to achieve the seemingly impossible, but Cox, a skilled

and highly readable writer, sticks to the swimming, leading the

reader by example. For thrills and inspiration, it's hard to find

anyone better than Lynne Cox. 

• 作者：路兮 发布时间：2010-04-23 14:06:20

  文字介绍翔实，图片及书的装帧太差

• 作者：QuailAries 发布时间：2021-07-06 20:08:29

  行文朴实无华，著者不是作家文人，笔力有限，但讲述的细节是真实的。而真实细节本身的说服力盖过一切，自然，感染力也盖过一切。

  后半部几乎都在讲那风雨飘摇的十年——内外交困、进退维艰的十年，也是忍辱负重、力挽狂澜的十年。

  也有用那十年来攻击他的历史虚无主义者，抨击他中庸，甚至指责他伪善。其实根本无凭无据，只管信口开河，不过哗众取宠。

  其实也无需身边人的叙述讲解，那些影像、文件、照片，虽静默无言，也足以彰显——

  那漫长十年，他熬尽心血。

• 作者：北美的Poseidon 发布时间：2021-08-05 12:58:10

  前中期读来还算有趣，楚汉之争真是一段传奇啊，枭雄辈出。读完之后对韩信的大起大落人生，刘邦的土里土气，项羽的刚愎自用仍有回味。书中也不乏朱买臣罢妻等历史故事，只不过书中在吕后专权和被灭的前述中讲解了汉室宗族被封后代的衰落，刘邦的治国措施等毫无头绪，让人读起来很吃力，这一部分写的与前半部分比起来稍显逊色

• 作者：懷德 发布时间：2018-09-12 23:24:11

  这些故居去过其中七个。只看故居绝想不到其主人在此有这么多的浮浮沉沉。书中讲述的历史大致从民国初年至建国前后，这正是一段“山河破碎风飘絮”的岁月。故居的主人们多为当时文化圈的名流，在动荡的年代，有些我原本以为能够高枕无忧，没想到也难逃“身世浮沉雨打萍”的命运。在轰轰烈烈的历史巨轮下，英雄和平民都是同样的卑微。但这些人物有一个共同点，就是对心中精神家园的永恒执念和不懈追求，我想这也是生活意义的所在吧。

• 作者：把你们豆沙了 发布时间：2024-01-09 10:12:30

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• 作者：天空之城 发布时间：2017-07-07 09:47:02

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• 我与猫

  作者：我才是李尔可 发布时间：2020-07-05 13:23:54

  我其实不太好分辨什么样的猫算是好看的猫。

  猫，总是令人喜爱的吧。

  田田说在这个书店里工作的人没有几个人是不喜欢猫的，想来，猫，和作家，猫和书店真的是很搭配的呢。

  虽然在这个漫画之中，少年与他的爱情是一个无疾而终的故事，但是在少年的笔下似乎这个故事也便得那样地青春而有活力。

  可是，不美好的爱情即使经过再多的渲染它也依然是不美好的，幸好，我们这个孤独、敏感又叛逆的少年终究有了这样的一只猫常伴在他的生命左右，所以我们才可以说他的生命是完整的。

  吾皇，是我们的少年的生命中的那一颗星。

• 《丁丁与汽车》——汽车迷

  作者：返返无止尽 发布时间：2023-05-03 21:25:21

  我想这本书，男孩们也会爱不释手的，因为书中综合了丁丁24本漫画中，所使用到的不同车型，并向我们一一做了详细的介绍，这是一本不错的汽车科普书。

  在书中的世界里，丁丁是根据需要使用不同的车型，而不是根据经济条件去选择车型，这是超现实的理想存在。在书外，作者埃尔热在三十一岁的时候拥有了人生中的第一辆车，他很爱惜，这辆车也在书中出现了。丁丁所使用的汽车，有些是生活中实际存在的车型，作者将实物和漫画中的车相对比，并向我们说明；而有些是作者想象中存在而实际并没有的车型，他将想像放置于书中也是一种创新，一种创作！

  男孩子会收集汽车，当有访客到访，他们如数家珍，向你热情地介绍关于车的相关知识，你会感慨他们对于汽车了解之多、内容之广。安迪的团队共7人将埃尔热的汽车变成3

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