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Author : Sue Whiting
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781925126334
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (263 download)
Download or read book A Swim in the Sea written by Sue Whiting and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frank Rose
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9781324074557
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (745 download)
Download or read book The Sea We Swim In written by Frank Rose and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 2024-02-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical guide to "narrative thinking," and why it matters in a world defined by data.
Author : Glenn Stout
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0618858687
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (188 download)
Download or read book Young Woman and the Sea written by Glenn Stout and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2009 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE PERFECT MILE meet SWIMMING TO ANTARCTICA in this compelling tale of how nineteen-year-old Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to swim the English Channel.
Author : Shyam Selvadurai
Publisher : Tundra Books
ISBN 13 : 1551997207
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Swimming in the Monsoon Sea written by Shyam Selvadurai and published by Tundra Books. This book was released on 2012-12-04 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amrith comes to terms with his sexuality in this sweeping coming-of-age story set against the stormy backdrop of monsoon season in 1980s Sri Lanka. For fans of Call Me By Your Name. Shyam Selvadurai’s brilliant novels, Funny Boy and Cinnamon Gardens, have garnered him international acclaim. In his first young adult novel, he explores first love with clarity, humor and compassion. The setting is Sri Lanka, 1980, and it is the season of monsoons. Fourteen-year-old Amrith is caught up in the life of the cheerful, well-to-do household in which he is being raised by his vibrant Auntie Bundle and kindly Uncle Lucky. He tries not to think of his life “before,” when his doting mother was still alive. Amrith’s holiday plans seem unpromising: he wants to appear in his school’s production of Othello and he is learning to type at Uncle Lucky’s tropical fish business. Then, like an unexpected monsoon, his cousin arrives from Canada and Amrith’s ordered life is storm-tossed. He finds himself falling in love with the Canadian boy. Othello, with its powerful theme of disastrous jealousy, is the backdrop to the drama in which Amrith finds himself immersed.
Author : Kristin Joy Pratt-Serafini
Publisher : Simply Nature Books
ISBN 13 : 9781584690801
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (98 download)
Download or read book A Swim Through the Sea written by Kristin Joy Pratt-Serafini and published by Simply Nature Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alphabetical introduction to various forms of sea life-from a seahorse's viewpoint.
Author : Alexandra Heminsley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1681774860
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (817 download)
Download or read book Leap In written by Alexandra Heminsley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-07-04 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At once inspiring, hilarious, and honest, the new book from Alexandra Heminsley chronicles her endeavor to tackle a whole new element, and the ensuing challenges and joys of open water swimming. “It's a meditative act,” they said. But it was far from meditative for Alexandra Heminsley when yet another wave slammed into her face. It was survival. When she laced up her shoes in Running Like a Girl, all she had to do to become a runner was to get out there and run. But swimming was something else entirely. The water was all-consuming, confusing her every move, sabotaging every breath. Determined, Alexandra would learn to adapt, find new strengths, and learn to work with the water. She does not want to stand on the beach looking at the sea any longer. She wants to leap in. In doing so she will learn not just how to accept herself, but how to accept what lay beyond. Soon, she will be able to see water, anywhere in the world and sense not fear but adventure. She will dive into water as she hopes to dive into life. And it has nothing to do with being “sporty” or being the correct shape for a swimsuit. Open water swimming is currently one of the fastest growing sports in the world, and marathon swimming is the only sport where men and women do not race in separate categories. The water welcomes all who are willing and prepared to take part, and as Alexandra shows in her wondrous and funny book, not knowing how to do something is not necessarily a weakness—strength lies within the desire to learn. The time is now to leap in, and revel in what you thought was beyond you, discovering that it was only ever you holding you back.
Author : David Rieff
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416554289
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Swimming in a Sea of Death written by David Rieff and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-01-08 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both a memoir and an investigation, Swimming in a Sea of Death is David Rieff's loving tribute to his mother, the writer Susan Sontag, and her final battle with cancer. Rieff's brave, passionate, and unsparing witness of the last nine months of her life, from her initial diagnosis to her death, is both an intensely personal portrait of the relationship between a mother and a son, and a reflection on what it is like to try to help someone gravely ill in her fight to go on living and, when the time comes, to die with dignity. Rieff offers no easy answers. Instead, his intensely personal book is a meditation on what it means to confront death in our culture. In his most profound work, this brilliant writer confronts the blunt feelings of the survivor -- the guilt, the self-questioning, the sense of not having done enough. And he tries to understand what it means to desire so desperately, as his mother did to the end of her life, to try almost anything in order to go on living. Drawing on his mother's heroic struggle, paying tribute to her doctors' ingenuity and faithfulness, and determined to tell what happened to them all, Swimming in a Sea of Death subtly draws wider lessons that will be of value to others when they find themselves in the same situation.
Author : Parragon Books
Publisher : Parragon Books
ISBN 13 : 9781646380114
Total Pages : 10 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Swim, Splash, in the Sea! written by Parragon Books and published by Parragon Books. This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Steve Metzger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780439661393
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (613 download)
Download or read book Five Little Sharks Swimming in the Sea written by Steve Metzger and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the doctor gets frustrated by the riotous play of the five little sharks, he decides to send them packing, yet after he does so, the neighborhood becomes all too quiet as the big blue ocean simply appears all too empty without them.
Author : Frank Rose
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393341259
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)
Download or read book The Art of Immersion: How the Digital Generation Is Remaking Hollywood, Madison Avenue, and the Way We Tell Stories written by Frank Rose and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-03-05 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a field guide to the visionaries - and the fans - who are reinventing the art of storytelling.
Author : George Saunders
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1984856049
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)
Download or read book A Swim in a Pond in the Rain written by George Saunders and published by Random House. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves—and our world today. LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, NPR, Time, San Francisco Chronicle, Esquire, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Town & Country, The Rumpus, Electric Lit, Thrillist, BookPage • “[A] worship song to writers and readers.”—Oprah Daily For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he shares a version of that class with us, offering some of what he and his students have discovered together over the years. Paired with iconic short stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, the seven essays in this book are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why it’s more relevant than ever in these turbulent times. In his introduction, Saunders writes, “We’re going to enter seven fastidiously constructed scale models of the world, made for a specific purpose that our time maybe doesn’t fully endorse but that these writers accepted implicitly as the aim of art—namely, to ask the big questions, questions like, How are we supposed to be living down here? What were we put here to accomplish? What should we value? What is truth, anyway, and how might we recognize it?” He approaches the stories technically yet accessibly, and through them explains how narrative functions; why we stay immersed in a story and why we resist it; and the bedrock virtues a writer must foster. The process of writing, Saunders reminds us, is a technical craft, but also a way of training oneself to see the world with new openness and curiosity. A Swim in a Pond in the Rain is a deep exploration not just of how great writing works but of how the mind itself works while reading, and of how the reading and writing of stories make genuine connection possible.
Author : Karen Eva Carr
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789145775
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)
Download or read book Shifting Currents written by Karen Eva Carr and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2022-07-18 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deep dive into the history of aquatics that exposes centuries-old tensions of race, gender, and power at the root of many contemporary swimming controversies. Shifting Currents is an original and comprehensive history of swimming. It examines the tension that arose when non-swimming northerners met African and Southeast Asian swimmers. Using archaeological, textual, and art-historical sources, Karen Eva Carr shows how the water simultaneously attracted and repelled these northerners—swimming seemed uncanny, related to witchcraft and sin. Europeans used Africans’ and Native Americans’ swimming skills to justify enslaving them, but northerners also wanted to claim water’s power for themselves. They imagined that swimming would bring them health and demonstrate their scientific modernity. As Carr reveals, this unresolved tension still sexualizes women’s swimming and marginalizes Black and Indigenous swimmers today. Thus, the history of swimming offers a new lens through which to gain a clearer view of race, gender, and power on a centuries-long scale.
Author : Lynn Sherr
Publisher : Public Affairs
ISBN 13 : 1610390466
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Swim written by Lynn Sherr and published by Public Affairs. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the nature and appeal of swimming, from the history of the strokes to aspects of modern Olympic competition, as well as the author's personal experiences and milestones in the sport.
Author : Nancy White Carlstrom
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780590203616
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Swim the Silver Sea, Joshie Otter written by Nancy White Carlstrom and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because none of the other animals will play with him, Joshie the sea otter swims too far out to sea, but he is called back by a song sung in the strong safe voice of his mother.
Author : Mikael Rosén
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1452170037
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (521 download)
Download or read book Open Water written by Mikael Rosén and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dive deep into the world of swimming with open water swimmer and coach Mikael Rosén as he explores the sport through eight different perspectives. With topics ranging from the vigorous mental and physical demands of the sport to gender and race politics, no reader will be left treading water. Rosén also provides a look into the lives of professional swimmers such as Michael Phelps and Sarah Sjöström, sharing insights into what makes these greats super swimmers. Packed with interesting history, science, and trivia, as well as useful charts, maps, sidebars, tips, and strategies—plus plenty of photos sprinkled throughout—this compendium is a must-have for any athlete or swimming fanatic.
Author : Kayla Rodney
Publisher : Unlikely Books
ISBN 13 : 9781733714327
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (143 download)
Download or read book Swimming Home written by Kayla Rodney and published by Unlikely Books. This book was released on 2019-12-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book of poetry by Kayla Rodney focuses on her experiences with New Orleans, tragedy, and hurricanes, especially Katrina.
Author : Georgie Codd
Publisher : Fleet
ISBN 13 : 9780708899199
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (991 download)
Download or read book We Swim to the Shark written by Georgie Codd and published by Fleet. This book was released on 2021-01-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Georgie Codd is scared of fish. Really, really scared. Loving the sea and resenting her phobia, she plots to cross continents, learn to dive and swim with the world's biggest fish: the mighty whale shark. Georgie soon plunges into a realm of strange creatures and intrepid diving adventurers. But as her quest to fight fear expands over oceans, the shark remains elusive, and everything else starts to fall apart around her.
