Read Online Free Why We Swim by Bonnie Tsui (Goodreads Author) - CAO

?A fascinating and beautifully written love letter to water. I was enchanted by this book. ?Rebecca Skloot bestselling author ofThe Immortal Life of Henrietta LacksHumans unlike other animals that are drawn to water are notnatural-born swimmers. We must be taught. Our evolutionaryancestors learned for survival; now in the twenty-first century we swimin freezing Arctic?A fascinating and beautifully written love letter to water. I was enchanted by this book. ?Rebecca Skloot bestselling author ofThe Immortal Life of Henrietta LacksHumans unlike other animals that are drawn to water are notnatural-born swimmers. We must be taught. Our evolutionaryancestors learned for survival; now in the twenty-first century we swimin freezing Arctic waters and piranha-infested rivers to test our limits.Swimming is an introspective and silent sport in a chaotic and noisyage; its therapeutic for both the mind and body; and its an adventurousway to get from point A to point B. Its also one route to that elusive ecstaticstate offlow. These reasons among many others make swimmingone of the most popular activities in the world.Why We Swimis propelled by stories of Olympic champions a Baghdadswim club that meets in Saddam Husseins palace pool modern-dayJapanese samurai swimmers and even an Icelandic fisherman who improbablysurvives a wintry six-hour swim after a shipwreck.New York Timescontributor Bonnie Tsui a swimmer herself dives into the deepfrom the San Francisco Bay to the South China Sea investigating whatabout water?despite its dangers?seduces us and why we come back to it again and again.(less)

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