Why We Swim
Written by Bonnie Tsui
Narrated by Angie Kane
4.5/5
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Editor's Note
Swimming is best…
It’d be hard to find a book that dissects everything you ever wanted to know about swimming more completely than “Why We Swim.” If you’re a lover of the sport, in the pool or open-water, this book will have you nodding in agreement with the many facts and stories Bonnie Tsui weaves together proving that swimming is the best.
Bonnie Tsui
Bonnie Tsui is a longtime contributor to The New York Times and California Sunday Magazine, as well as the recipient of the Jane Rainie Opel Young Alumna Award from Harvard University, the Lowell Thomas Gold Award, and a National Press Foundation Fellowship. Her book American Chinatown won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature and was a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller. She lives, swims, and surfs in the Bay Area.
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Reviews for Why We Swim
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5What a beautiful book! Such interesting facts about water and our relationship to it, and a gorgeous, moving meditation. I want to love something the way this author loves swimming. Highly recommended.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Incredible book! This book is basically a long ode or sonnet to swimming and water. She makes a gripping link in history, survival stories, competition, and casual swimming in all humans. The stories are vast and she does a wonderful job of linking them all to be revelant to anyone lucky enough to read this book. Her writing has depth and is eloquent like a poem. I'll be honest I don't know how this got on my reading list, in retrospectvery happy it did. I am not the person that has ever been drawn to swimming. I enjoy it of course, but I recognize that some people are just drawn to it. However, after reading this book even I am encouraged to put swimming in my schedule. I would recommend this book to anyone who has had a life long love of swimming. In addition, if there are any triathloners that struggle mentally with this discipline READ THIS BOOK! Or anyone that just likes great stories about the wonders of what humans can do.