Book: Swimming to Antarctica

A book I'm reading and hope to review in the future:

Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer
Lynne Cox
2004

Inner flap:
*At age 14, she swam 26 miles from Catalina Island to the California mainland
*At ages 15 and 16, she broke the men and women's world records for swimming the English channel
* At 18, she swam the 29 mile Cook Strait, was caught on a massive swell, found herself after five hours farther from the finish then when she started, and still completed the swim
*She was the first to swim the Strait of Magellan, the most teacherous 3-mile stretch of water in the world.
*The first to swim the Bering Strait from Alaska to Siberia, thereby opening the US/Soviet border for the first time in 48 years
*The first to swim the Cape of Good Hope (and almost attacked by a shark)

In this extraordinary book, the world's most extraordinary distance swimer writes about her emotional and spiritual need to swim and about the almost mystical act of swimming itself.

... She tells us how she conceived of, planned, and trained for each, and recreates the experience of swimming (almost) unswimmable bodies of water, including her most recent astonishing one-mile swim to Antarctica in 32 degree water without a wetsuit.