WHY YOU SWIM

I dove, completely at ease, into a book that promised to be like a neighborhood swimming pool, but which, breath by breath, took me on a journey around the world to the very ends of history, of exceptional bodies and minds, plunging me into the depths of the psyche and the exhilaration of the open sea. And it’s all true. I asked the swimmers in my life and discovered that they, too, carry, in the…