{"product_id":"why-we-swim-pb","title":"Why We Swim","description":"\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: Bonnie Tsui | Paperback\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Best Book of the Season: BuzzFeed\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A fascinating and beautifully written love letter to water. I was enchanted by this book.\" --Rebecca Skloot, bestselling author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eAn immersive, unforgettable, and eye-opening perspective on swimming--and on human behavior itself.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eWe swim in freezing Arctic waters and piranha-infested rivers to test our limits. We swim for pleasure, for exercise, for healing. But humans, unlike other animals that are drawn to water, are not natural-born swimmers. We must be taught. Our evolutionary ancestors learned for survival; now, in the twenty-first century, swimming is one of the most popular activities in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhy We Swim \u003c\/em\u003eis propelled by stories of Olympic champions, a Baghdad swim club that meets in Saddam Hussein's palace pool, modern-day Japanese samurai swimmers, and even an Icelandic fisherman who improbably survives a wintry six-hour swim after a shipwreck. \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e contributor Bonnie Tsui, a swimmer herself, dives into the deep, from the San Francisco Bay to the South China Sea, investigating what about water--despite its dangers--seduces us and why we come back to it again and again.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40398337376418,"sku":"9781643751375","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0448\/5162\/6146\/products\/9781643751375.gif?v=1626322180","url":"https:\/\/dashophnl.com\/products\/why-we-swim-pb","provider":"da Shop: books + curiosities","version":"1.0","type":"link"}