With Swim, you can avoid that happening to you. Renowned broadcast journalist and author Lynn Sherr explores the culture, history, challenges, and p Swim: Why We Love the Water. Swimming enthusiast Lynn Sherr explores every aspect of the sport, from the biology of swimming to the fame of Esther Williams from turquoise pools and wild water to the training of Olympians and she reveals the secret of buoyancy so that anyone can avoid the example of the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, who lamented,'Why can't I swim, it seems so very easy?&rdquo When his friend, the biographer Edward John Trelawny, said,'because you think you can't,&rdquo Shelley plunged into Italy's Arno River and dropped like a rock. You'll even find a few songs to sing when you push out those next laps. It's about our relationship with the water, with our fishy forebearers, and with the costumes that we wear.

Its an inquiry into why we swim - the lure, the hold, the timeless magic of being in the water.

It's a look at how swimming has changed over the millennia, how this ancient activity is becoming more social than solitary today. Swim is a celebration of swimming and the effect it has on our lives. For more than thirty years, she was an award-winning correspondent for ABC News. Wellesley alumna, journalist, and author Lynn Sherr 62 wrote an article. She has since expanded both her strokes and her waterways. Sherrs Book Inspired by an Article Written for Wellesley Magazine. as well as open-water endurance swimmers Lynne Cox and Diana Nyad. Broadcast journalist and writer Lynn Sherr has been swimming since she was a toddler, learning first by watching frogs in a Pennsylvania lake. It's an inquiry into why we swim- the lure, the hold, the timeless magic of being in the water. Lynn Sherr, author of SWIM: Why we Love the Water ((PublicAffiars, April 2012).

Swim is a celebration of swimming and the effect it has on our lives. immerses the reader in the history, lore, science and trivia of swimming.'- Sports Illustrated A Washington Post and Economist Best Book of 2012: 'A witty and informative celebration of her sport, as well as an inspiring tale of personal challenge and discovery.

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