Grayson - Softcover

Cox, Dr Lynne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0156034670 ISBN 13: 9780156034678

Publisher: Mariner Books, 2008

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date: 02 May 2008 Pages: 176 Publisher: Mariner Books 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 eak. She was swimming her last half-mile back to the pier before heading home for eakfast 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...

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Review:

Praise for GRAYSON:

"Don't believe in interspecies communication? Grayson, author Cox's moving memoir about the lost baby whale she encountered when she was 17, just might change your mind."--People

"An account of courage and adventure artfully rendered with the joy, wonder, and suspense it deserves."--The Boston Globe

"A riveting adventure celebrating the mysterious bond between a champion swimmer and one wayward calf."--Elle

"Together [Cox and Grayson] journey to the eventual mother-and-child reunion through a fantastical world of giant ocean sunfish, bat rays with five-foot wingspans and a school of dolphins."--The New York Times

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Praise for Grayson
"Don t believe in interspecies communication? Grayson, author Cox s moving memoir about the lost baby whale she encountered when she was 17, just might change your mind."--People
"An account of courage and adventure artfully rendered with the joy, wonder, and suspense it deserves." The Boston Globe
"Together [Cox and Grayson] journey to the eventual mother-and-child reunion through a fantastical world of giant ocean sunfish, bat rays with five-foot wingspans and a school of dolphins." The New York Times
"Cox unfurls a shining hydrography of the waterscape . . . She is a canny observer of her watery surroundings, a plain-spoken natural historian of its citizens, and a rhapsodist of its fearful magic." The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"A joyful and charming tale." The Christian Science Monitor"

About this edition

• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0156034670
• ISBN 13: 9780156034678
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176