I have Diana Nyad's books and Swiimming to Antarctica, Penny Deans Open Water Swimming, Marcia Cleveland's Dover Solo and a few more basic training books. I like Diana's best but for planning/training information I haven't found anything I liked yet but maybe you have?
Which are your favorite training books and which are your favorite inspriational stories?
Nice to see this thread resuscitated. What's surprising is that there really aren't that many books about swimming - much less open-water swimming (this is in the OWS forum, after all). I'm not sure what the reference point should be... for OWS, perhaps mountaineering? A search of Amazon.com reveals 245 books in the Exercise & Fitness > Swimming category, compared to 7,018 books in the Sports & Outdoors > Mountain Climbing category.
A few important OWS books have been published since this thread was originally active... off the top of my head:
- Young Woman and the Sea (Glenn Stout) - about Gertrude Ederle & the English Channel
- and two Lynne Cox books - Grayson and South with the Sun
If you're going to include instructionals like the TI book, it would be imperative to mention:
- Maglischo's Swimming Fastest
- Salo's Complete Conditioning for Swimming
- and Steven Munatones' Open Water Swimming
Nice to see this thread resuscitated. What's surprising is that there really aren't that many books about swimming - much less open-water swimming (this is in the OWS forum, after all). I'm not sure what the reference point should be... for OWS, perhaps mountaineering? A search of Amazon.com reveals 245 books in the Exercise & Fitness > Swimming category, compared to 7,018 books in the Sports & Outdoors > Mountain Climbing category.
A few important OWS books have been published since this thread was originally active... off the top of my head:
- Young Woman and the Sea (Glenn Stout) - about Gertrude Ederle & the English Channel
- and two Lynne Cox books - Grayson and South with the Sun
If you're going to include instructionals like the TI book, it would be imperative to mention:
- Maglischo's Swimming Fastest
- Salo's Complete Conditioning for Swimming
- and Steven Munatones' Open Water Swimming
