Description:
A Mother Jones' Best Book of the Year
"A classic ode to wild swimming." --Outside
Brief description: Bonnie Tsui is a journalist and the author of Why We Swim, a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, a TIME Magazine Must-Read Book of 2020, an NPR Best Book of 2020, and a Los Angeles Times and Boston Globe bestseller. It is currently being translated into six languages. Her first children's book, Sarah and the Big Wave, about the first woman to surf Mavericks, will be published in May 2021. She lives, swims, and surfs in the Bay Area.
Review Quotes: Part amphibious adventure memoir and part right to roam manifesto, beneath Waterlog's delightful quirk lies a serious treatise on public access and the belief that swimming is intrinsically transformative.... Sublimely subversive reading of the highest order.-- "Adventure Journal"