Distance swimmer Lynne Cox describes the challenges of swimming across the English Channel, the Bering Strait, the Strait of Magellan, Cook Strait in New Zealand, and in the cold waters of the Antarctic.

Originally published: New York : A.A. Knopf, c2004.

Prologue: A Cold Day in August --1 -- 1 Beginnings -- 7 -- 2 Leaving Home -- 14 -- 3 Open Water -- 27 -- 4 Twenty-six Miles Across the Sea -- 40 -- 5 English Channel -- 57 -- 6 White Cliffs of Dover -- 69 -- 7 Homecoming -- 95 -- 8 Invitation to Egypt -- 102 -- 9 Lost in the Fog -- 124 -- 10 Cook Strait, New Zealand -- 134 -- 11 Human Research Subject -- 146 -- 12 Strait of Magellan -- 160 -- 13 Around the Cape of Good Hope -- 177 -- 14 Around the World in Eighty Days -- 194 -- 15 Glacier Bay -- 204 -- 16 Facing the Bomb -- 224 -- 17 A-Team -- 234 -- 18 Mind-Blowing -- 248 -- 19 Debate -- 265 -- 20 Across the Bering Strait -- 282 -- 21 Success -- 302 -- 22 Siberia's Gold Medal -- 307 -- 23 Swimming to Antarctica -- 314.