Swimming to Antartica (Lynne Cox)

322 pages. Autobiography about an incredible lady who twice broke the male-female world records for swimming the English Channel, swam the Beiring Strait during the Cold War, the Straits of Magellan, Glacier Bay, and a bunch of other places including a mile to Antartica in 32 degree water. Mom recommended this book to us. We (Bryan and Kristen) read it together, and it was pretty good. I think it would have been better had it not been an autobiography -- she may be a good swimmer, but we got tired of reading "I swam harder than I had ever swam before" and we particularly did not like the parts where she was talking to herself and writing it down. But there were also very good parts, such as when the people of New Zealand were cheering her on for crossing some waterway, or when she reached the Soviet eskimos after crossing the Beiring Strait. We give it two stars.