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false <![CDATA[Grayson]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178289222m/780678.jpg 780678 10 Grayson is Lynne Cox’s first book since Swimming to Antarctica (“Riveting”—Sports Illustrated; “Pitch-perfect”—Outside). In it she tells the story of a miraculous ocean encounter that happened to her when she was seventeen and in training for a big swim (she had already swum the English Channel, twice, and the Catalina Channel). It was the dark of early morning; Lynne was in 55-degree water as smooth as black ice, two hundred yards offshore, outside the wave break. She was swimming her last half-mile back to the pier before heading home for breakfast when she became aware that something was swimming with her. The ocean was charged with energy as if a squall was moving in; thousands of baby anchovy darted through the water like lit sparklers, trying to evade something larger. Whatever it was, it felt large enough to be a white shark coursing beneath her body. It wasn’t a shark. It became clear that it was a baby gray whale—following alongside Lynne for a mile or so. Lynne had been swimming for more than an hour; she needed to get out of the water to rest, but she realized that if she did, the young calf would follow her onto shore and die from collapsed lungs. The baby whale—eighteen feet long!—was migrating on a three-month trek to its feeding grounds in the Bering Sea, an eight-thousand-mile journey. It would have to be carried on its mother’s back for much of that distance, and was dependent on its mother’s milk for food—baby whales drink up to fifty gallons of milk a day. If Lynne didn’t find the mother whale, the baby would suffer from dehydration and starve to death. Something so enormous—the mother whale was 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 . . . 766704 1 8 2006 Grayson total:733|5:121|4:239|3:246|2:101|1:26| 733 2527 1035 264 2 2 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 15 07:59:16 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 25 20:12:12 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sun Aug 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 15:13:42 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 00:22:25 -0700 2009 "Seventy-five percent of our planet is water, can you swim?" ~Author Unknown

Grayson is a true story of a long-distance swimmer (Lynne Cox) who while training off the California coast encounters a baby whale who has lost its mother. She is afraid that if she returns to the shor...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jan 21 18:41:53 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 30 10:19:14 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jul 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 26 22:54:55 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 30 01:22:09 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 1 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu May 17 08:28:02 -0700 2007 Thu May 17 08:30:49 -0700 2007
My problem with the book is Cox's style: the book sounds like a high school ...more...]]> 2 1 false false Wed Sep 26 09:33:04 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 26 09:51:09 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Apr 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 10 15:55:26 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 30 15:26:37 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 22 17:43:46 -0700 2009 Fri May 22 17:44:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Aug 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 11:56:38 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 12:14:54 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Feb 06 15:00:26 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 06 15:07:24 -0800 2009 The storyline is captivating, the writing is poetic in places, a bit tedious in others. Although...long distance swimming IS tedious (especially from an observe...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jan 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 01 12:29:24 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 17 18:16:16 -0800 2009
"At 14, she swam California’s Catalina Channel — 21 miles in 12 hours. At 15, she set the women’s and men’s record in the En...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Sep 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 13:53:44 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 13:58:37 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 08 11:04:26 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 11:14:11 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 01 19:34:35 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 01 19:34:35 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Jun 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 24 19:13:37 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 26 19:18:21 -0700 2008
"Sometimes...the i...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Mon Nov 19 11:49:00 -0800 2007 Mon Nov 19 11:53:15 -0800 2007 On a clear California morning when Cox (Swimming to Antarctica) was 17 years old, she had an unusual experience that stayed with her for 30 years, creating a spiritual foundation for her personal and professional success. In this slim and crisp memoir, Cox details ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue May 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 12 21:39:20 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 00:01:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Dec 03 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 02 15:07:09 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 05 17:36:28 -0800 2008
Ok now that I finished I thought it was great. The writing was a little amateur, but the fact that the author wrote about a true event completely makes up for it. And she swam the English Chan...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jan 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 02 13:42:35 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 15:13:05 -0800 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Mon Jun 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 30 06:54:10 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 30 06:58:12 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=780678