Commentary On Swimming To Antarctica By Lynne Cox

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Swimming to Antarctica by Lynne Cox is a fascinating and inspiring story. It contains writing that will make you feel the emotions that the author experiences in the moments she describes. The detailed imagery used makes it as if you are the one being exposed to her challenges. Lynne takes you through the pain and dedication needed to achieve big goals. She’s blunt and tells that it wasn’t easy. The book provides the message that in order to achieve big things, it takes an unimaginable amount of strength.

Lynne Cox has a fascination with water and it started early in life. In the book, She describes her experiences in water; one includes her one-mile swim to Antarctica. Cox swam in bone-chilling, thirty-two-degree water without a wetsuit.

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