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1) Swimming
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
24 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
"This photo-illustrated book for early readers introduces the basics of swimming and encourages kids to try it. Includes labeled diagram of swimming pool and photo glossary"--
Author
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
iii, 193 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Description
"Swimming Anatomy" includes 74 of the most effective swimming exercises, each with step-by-step descriptions and full-color anatomical illustrations highlighting the primary muscles in action and showing how each exercise is fundamentally linked to swimming performance.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Description
For young athletes who want to learn how to improve their swimming skills and become an advanced swimmer, this exciting guide is the answer! Detailed photographs take readers through step-by-step drills on starts, turns, freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly, and more. Clear text outlines the rules of competition and discusses diet and staying fit. Young athletes will also be inspired by fact boxes about current swimming stars and the secrets...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 28 cm
Description
"Swimming lessons are on Saturdays, and every Saturday one little girl has a stomachache. When she gets to the pool it's loud, the floor is wet and slippery, and her swim cap is too tight. Her swimming instructor, Mary, says it's OK to sit by the edge if she doesn't want to get in the water this week. The next Saturday the girl has a stomachache again, but with Mary's gentle encouragement, she eventually manages to make it into the pool to practice...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
vii, 328 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"Swimming is a long thread that connects the Olympic heroes of today with the real and mythic ones of the past across more than ten millennia--a recorded history that begins in a cave in the Egyptian desert and sweeps across athletes and poets, statesmen and emperors, humans and gods; across the whole human experience, the entire human story. Splash! weaves a 10,000-year-old tale that begins in a bone-dry cave in the remote southwest corner of Egypt,...
13) Swimming salmon
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill., col. map ; 19 cm.
Description
Introduces the physical characteristics, behavior, and habitat of salmon.
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Series
Rainbow magic. Sports fairies volume 5
Pub. Date
[2010], c2008
Physical Desc
63 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm.
Description
While everyone in Fairyland is getting ready for the Fairy Olympics, Jack Frost's goblins steal the Sports Fairies' magic objects, and Rachel and Kristy must try to get back Samantha's magic goggles from the goblins.
15) Swimming lessons
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
350 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Ingrid Coleman writes letters to her husband, Gil, about the truth of their marriage, but instead of giving them to him, she hides them in the thousands of books he has collected over the years. Then she disappears from a Dorset beach, leaving behind her husband, and her two daughters, Flora and Nan. Twelve years later, Gil thinks he sees Ingrid from a bookshop window. Flora, who has never believed her mother drowned, returns home to care for her...
16) Swimming pool
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sarah is a famous British murder mystery author. Tired of London and seeking inspiration for her new novel, she accepts an offer from her publisher to stay at his home in the south of France. Sarah finds that the beautiful country locale and unhurried pace is just the tonic for her - until late one night, when John's sexy and provocative daughter, Julie, unexpectedly arrives. Sarah's English reserve is jarred by Julie's lifestyle. An increasingly...
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Formats
Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this extraordinary book, the world’s most extraordinary distance swimmer writes about her emotional and spiritual need to swim and about the almost mystical act of swimming itself.
Lynne Cox trained hard from age nine, working with an Olympic coach, swimming five to twelve miles each day in the Pacific. At age eleven, she swam even when hail made the water “like cold tapioca pudding”...
Lynne Cox trained hard from age nine, working with an Olympic coach, swimming five to twelve miles each day in the Pacific. At age eleven, she swam even when hail made the water “like cold tapioca pudding”...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
208 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
"Whether you want to take your first tentative dip in your local wild swimming spot or take on a long-distance swimming challenge, you'll find everything you need to embrace outdoor swimming and enjoy the health and wellbeing benefits it offers. Have you ever wondered what kit you need for winter swimming or how to fall in love with the cold? This book includes dedicated information about each season, ensuring you have everything you need to make...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
255 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"Whether in lake, lido, river or sea, we know the benefits of swimming outdoors and in nature - environmentally friendly and accessible, it can influence our happiness, our energy and our inner tranquility, and give us that winter glow. Danish scientist Dr Susanna Søberg leads us step by step into the icy water and explains the "cold-shock response", the massive endorphin rush as our body reacts and adapts to very cold temperatures through the winter...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
207 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Description
Get the lowdown from writer Anna Katz and ski guide Shane Robinson on the best natural waters in which to take a summer dip in the Pacific Northwest, from the San Juan Islands to the Washington-Oregon border and beyond.
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