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Why We Swim

BookPaperback
Ranking23466inSport
CHF19.90

Description

"Bonnie Tsui looks at our love affair with the water, from evolution to mythology, from survival and well-being, from community swim clubs to competitive races, and she goes around the world to explore its significance in many cultures"--
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ISBN/GTIN978-1-64375-137-5
Product TypeBook
BindingPaperback
Publishing date13/04/2021
Pages288 pages
LanguageEnglish
SizeWidth 140 mm, Height 210 mm, Thickness 17 mm
Weight248 g
Article no.42477027
CatalogsBuchzentrum
Data source no.34268607
Product groupSport
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Author

Bonnie Tsui lives, swims, and surfs in the Bay Area. A longtime contributor to the New York Times and California Sunday Magazine, she has been the recipient of the Jane Rainie Opel Young Alumna Award from Harvard University, the Lowell Thomas Gold Award, and a National Press Foundation Fellowship. Her last book, American Chinatown: A People's History of Five Neighborhoods, won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature and was a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller and Best of 2009 Notable Bay Area Books selection. Her website is bonnietsui.com.