Her books include Swim, Outside the Box, and America the Beautiful, among others. Sherr’s numerous awards include an Emmy, two American Women in Radio and Television Commendation awards, a Gracie Award, and a George Foster Peabody Award. She reported on the NASA space shuttle program from its inception in 1981 through the Challenger explosion in 1986. Lynn Sherr is an award-winning broadcaster and author who spent more than thirty years at ABC News. Author Lynn Sherr elevates swimming to a spiritual experience when. Her pioneering work has been instrumental in our understanding of women in history. I enjoy the discipline of overcoming limitations, both physical and mental, while swimming laps or even doing an open water swim. Swimming promotes mindfulness, thought, internal reflection, and an appreciation of nature, making it an excellent way to maintain a healthy perception of the self and of others.Professor Pomeroy, a Distinguished Professor of Classics and History Emerita at the City University of New York, is an accomplished author of numerous books, articles, and reviews on the topic of Women in Antiquity, including the classic Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity. She has won many awards, including the Ford Foundation Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, and a Mellon Foundation Fellowship. Instead they are the memoirs of casual swimmers, donning their costumes and embarking on personal explorations of the self, the landscape, and the history that flows through it. Some of the best books on swimming are not the biographies of its elite practitioners. THE OUTDOOR SWIMMER’S LIBRARY: Part One: SWIMMING JOURNEYS FOR EVERYONE – MEMOIR Many of the books would fit comfortably in several categories, so my groupings are somewhat subjective. There are as many ways to categorise books on swimming as there are waters to swim in. These are my favourite books, and would be the ones I’d choose to while away the very few non-swimming hours if I was stranded on a deserted island. They are part memoir, part swimming philosophy, part history, and part modest journey. This first section covers the breadth of non-competitive outdoor swimming. I have divided the library into sections.
Kate Rew suggested that I compile the list into an OSS Outdoor Swimmer’s Library. The well-read OSS community replied to my post, more than tripling my list of books and giving me plenty of suggestions on what to read next.
My initial list had about 20 books on it. In February 2016 I posted a list of swimming books on the OSS Facebook page.
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