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Lynne Cox was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and grew up in Los Alamitos, California, where she presently lives. She has held open-water swimming records all over the world, for among others, the fastest crossing of the English Channel (at age 15), the Santa Catalina Channel, the twelve-mile Oresund between Denmark and Sweden, and the Kattegut between Norway to Sweden. Cox was the first woman to swim across the Cook Strait in New Zealand, the first to swim across the Strait of Magellan, the Beagle Channel between Argentina and Chile, Lake Baikal in Russia, and around the Cape of Good Hope. In 1987, Cox crossed the Bering Strait to the Soviet Union, and in 2002 swam more than a mile in the 31°F waters off Antarctica. Cox has been inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame. She is the author of Swimming to Antarctica, Grayson, South with the Sun. Her articles have appeared in many publications, among them The New Yorker and the Los Angeles Times Magazine.
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Written by Lynne Cox
Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: August 1, 2006
Price: $19.95
In Grayson Lynne Cox tells the story of a miraculous ocean encounter that happened to her when she was seventeen and in training for a big swim (she had already swum the English Channel, twice, and the Catalina Channel).
It was the dark of early morning; Lynne was in 55-degree water as... Read more >
Written by Lynne Cox
Format: eBook, 160 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: May 4, 2011
Price: $9.99
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Written by Lynne Cox
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 9, 2007
Price: $9.95
De una de las nadadoras profesionales más destacadas del mundo nos llega este maravilloso relato, sobre el poder de la fe que supera todos los obstáculos
En Grayson, Lynne Cox narra la historia de un milagroso e inolvidable encuentro que vivió en el mar a los diecisiete años. En una madrugada serena... Read more >
Written by Lynne Cox
Format: eBook, 160 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 11, 2011
Price: $6.99
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An Expert's Survival Guide for Triathletes and Open Water Swimmers
Written by Lynne Cox
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 30, 2013
Price: $15.95
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An Expert's Survival Guide for Triathletes and Open Water Swimmers
Written by Lynne Cox
Format: eBook
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 30, 2013
Price: $11.99
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Roald Amundsen, His Polar Explorations, and the Quest for Discovery
Written by Lynne Cox
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: September 13, 2011
Price: $26.00
Roald Amundsen, “the last of the Vikings,” left his mark on the Heroic Era as one of the most successful polar explorers ever.
A powerfully built man more than six feet tall, Amundsen’s career of adventure began at the age of fifteen (he was born in Norway in 1872 to a... Read more >
Roald Amundsen, His Polar Explorations, and the Quest for Discovery
Written by Lynne Cox
Format: eBook, 320 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: September 13, 2011
Price: $13.99
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Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer
Written by Lynne Cox
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: January 13, 2004
Price: $24.95
“Like all those who have followed Lynne Cox’s adventures, I have looked forward to her own account for a long time. Swimming to Antarctica is her literally chilling chronicle of a series of remarkable and courageous journeys on the world's high wild seas.” —Caroline Alexander
• At age fourteen, she swam twenty-six miles... Read more >
Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer
Written by Lynne Cox
Format: eBook, 336 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: September 9, 2009
Price: $12.99
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