Bonnie Tsui

Broschiertes Buch

Why We Swim

Beschreibung

"Bonnie Tsui looks at our love affair with the water, from evolution to mythology, from survival and well-being, from community swim clubs to competitive races, and she goes around the world to explore its significance in many cultures"--

Autor

Bonnie Tsui lives, swims, and surfs in the Bay Area. A longtime contributor to the New York Times and California Sunday Magazine, she has been the recipient of the Jane Rainie Opel Young Alumna Award from Harvard University, the Lowell Thomas Gold Award, and a National Press Foundation Fellowship. Her last book, American Chinatown: A People’s History of Five Neighborhoods, won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature and was a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller and Best of 2009 Notable Bay Area Books selection. Her website is bonnietsui.com.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little Brown and Company
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 137mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 246g
• ISBN-13: 9781643751375
• ISBN-10: 1643751379
• Artikelnr.: 59758703

Rezensionen

A beautifully written love letter to water and a fascinating story. I was enchanted. Rebecca Skloot, bestselling author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks