{"product_id":"why-we-swim-9781616207861","title":"Why We Swim","description":"\u003cp\u003eA Time Magazine Must-Read Book of 2020 A Best Book of the Season: BuzzFeed  Bustle  San Francisco Chronicle A Best Book of the Year: NPRs Book Concierge  Washington Independent Review of Books  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  An immersive  unforgettable  and eye-opening perspective on swimmingand on human behavior itself.  We 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.  Why We Swim is propelled by stories of Olympic champions  a Baghdad swim club that meets in Saddam Husseins palace pool  modern-day Japanese samurai swimmers  and even an Icelandic fisherman who improbably survives a wintry six-hour swim after a shipwreck. New York Times contributor Bonnie Tsui  a swimmer herself  dives into the deep  from the San Francisco Bay to the South China Sea  investigating what it is about water that seduces us  despite its dangers  and why we come back to it again and again.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45953209270325,"sku":"ByrdShop_1616207868","price":21.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781616207861.jpg?v=1788181628","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/why-we-swim-9781616207861","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}