Lynne Cox Bücher

Die beglückende Begegnung mit einer Welt voller Wunder und Weisheit. Himmel und Erde sind so tintenschwarz, dass sie verschmelzen, als die 17-jährige Lynne Cox ihr frühmorgendliches Training vor der Küste von Los Angeles aufnimmt. Es wird eine der existenziellsten Erfahrungen im Leben der Schwimmerin. Denn ohne es zu merken, hat Lynne an diesem Tag einen einzigartigen Begleiter - ein Grauwal-Baby, das auf dem langen Weg in die Arktis seine Mutter verloren hat. Mit Hilfe von Küstenwache und Fischern nimmt Lynne die Suche nach der Mutter auf, ohne die der kleine Wal verloren wäre. Mehrmals durchschwimmt sie mit ihrem ungewöhnlichen Begleiter die Bucht, immer auf der Suche nach einer Stelle, wo Mutter und Kind Kontakt aufnehmen können. Schwierige, zutiefst bewegende Stunden zwischen Zuversicht und Angst, Verzweiflung und purer Glückseligkeit. Und dann der magische Moment, als Walmutter und Baby schließlich wieder vereint sind - bis heute eine Quelle der Kraft und Inspiration für die junge Schwimmerin. „Lynne Cox ist ein wunderbare Geschichtenerzählerin, die die ungeheure Größe und unergründlichen Geheimnisse der Weltmeere und ihrer Bewohner begreifen lernt. “Der kleine Wal„ wird jeden Leser verzaubern und zutiefst berühren. “Der kleine Wal„ ist ein machtvoller Aufruf zum Schutz der Natur.“ Jane Goodall „Eine wahre (!) Geschichte, die Lust macht auf Begegnungen unbekannter Art.“ TV SPIELFIM „[Cox] Prosa schwankt zwischen dem Faktischen und dem hoch Emotionalen, aber gerade das macht ihr kleines Buch so anrührend und weit entfernt vom Kitschigen.“ HELLWEGER ANZEIGER

Im Dezember 2002 schwimmt Lynne Cox eine Meile im antarktischen Eismeer ohne Schutz. Nur in Badeanzug, Badekappe und Schwimmbrille zeigt sie außergewöhnliche Leistungen. Ihre Biografie erzählt von ihren Lebensbahnen, dem Durchhaltevermögen und der Entschlossenheit.

The Thrive in Bioscience revision guides are written to help undergraduate students achieve exam success in all core areas of bioscience. They communicate all the key concepts in a succinct, easy-to-digest way, using features and tools - both in the book and in digital form - to make learning even more effective.

In this picture book that is both heartwarming and exciting, join Yoshi, a sea turtle, on her remarkable journey as she swims farther than any animal in recorded history--23,000 miles!--to return to the beach where she first hatched, to lay her own eggs. Inside every loggerhead turtle is genius: the ability to find their first home, no matter how far away. Follow one, from her birth on a beach in Australia...to her trip across an ocean filled with sharks and seahorses and much more...to her rescue from a net by a fisherman, who names her Yoshi...to her rehabilitation at an aquarium...to her record-breaking swim across the Indian Ocean to the beach on which she hatched, to lay her eggs. Written by Lynne Cox, also a record-breaking swimmer, here is the true story of a sea turtle who swam the longest distance of any animal in recorded history.

Now in paperback, with photos and maps added especially for this new edition, here is the acclaimed life story of a woman whose drive and determination inspire everyone she touches.Lynne Cox started swimming almost as soon as she could walk. By age sixteen, she had broken all records for swimming the English Channel. Her daring eventually led her to the Bering Strait, where she swam five miles in thirty-eight-degree water in just a swimsuit, cap, and goggles. In between those accomplishments, she became the first to swim the Strait of Magellan, narrowly escaped a shark attack off the Cape of Good Hope, and was cheered across the twenty-mile Cook Strait of New Zealand by dolphins. She even swam a mile in the Antarctic.Lynne writes the same way she swims, with indefatigable spirit and joy, and shares the beauty of her time in the water with a poet's eye for detail. She has accomplished yet another feat--writing a new classic of sports memoir.

Relates the story of an elephant seal named Elizabeth that was transferred from the Avon River in Christchurch, New Zealand, to the ocean, but found her way back to the city.

Lynne Cox, adventurer and swimmer, author of Swimming to Antarctica ("gripping" --Sports Illustrated) and Grayson ("wondrous, and unforgettable" --Carl Hiaasen), gives us in South with the Sun a full-scale account of the explorer's life and expeditions.

This Captivating Bestseller tells the true story of a miraculous encounter between a teenage girl and a baby whale off the coast of California. It was the dark and early morning; Lynne was swimming her last mile back to the pier after a long workout when she became aware that something was swimming with her. The ocean was charged with energy as if a squall was moving in; whatever it was felt large enough to be a white shark coursing beneath her.In fact, it was a baby whale following alongside her. Lynne quickly realized that if she swam back to the pier, the young calf would follow her to shore and die from collapsed lungs. But if Lynne didn't find the mother whale, the baby would suffer from dehydration and starve to death.Something so enormous-the mother whale would be at least fifty feet long-suddenly seemed very small in the vast Pacific Ocean. How could Lynne possibly find her?This is the story-part mystery, part magical tale-of what happened.

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