We Swim to the Shark - Overcoming fear one fish at a time

Zusatztext A terrific read Informationen zum Autor Georgie Codd has worked behind the scenes at a funeral parlour, taught English in a Himalayan nunnery, edited publications for the Tibetan Government in Exile, and shadowed drug dealers in Florida City. She is a graduate of the University of East Anglia's Prose-writing MA, where her flash fiction won the Seth Donaldson Bursary. We Swim to the Shark is her first book. Klappentext As heard on This American Life Georgie Codd is scared of fish. Really, really scared. Loving the sea and resenting her phobia, she plots to cross continents, learn to dive and swim with the world's biggest fish: the mighty whale shark. Georgie soon plunges into a realm of strange creatures and intrepid diving adventurers. But as her quest to fight fear expands over oceans, the shark remains elusive, and everything else starts to fall apart around her. 'We Swim to the Shark is a lesson in not giving up . . . as with all good adventure stories, the real benefit is in the searching' THE I 'An almost spiritual mission' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 'A terrific read' BBC RADIO NORFOLK 'An enthralling ride' ABC MELBOURNE Vorwort For readers of The Outrun and The Salt Path , a meditation on diving and fear, and what we're all really afraid of Zusammenfassung For readers of The Outrun and The Salt Path, a meditation on diving and fear, and what we're all really afraid of

About the author

Georgie Codd has worked behind the scenes at a funeral parlour, taught English in a Himalayan nunnery, edited publications for the Tibetan Government in Exile, and shadowed drug dealers in Florida City. She is a graduate of the University of East Anglia's Prose-writing MA, where her flash fiction won the Seth Donaldson Bursary.

We Swim to the Shark is her first book.

Product details

• Authors: Georgie Codd
• Publisher: Fleet
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2021
• EAN: 9780708899199
• ISBN: 978-0-7088-9919-9
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 124 mm x 196 mm x 26 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Divorce & Separation, Memoirs, NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Oceans & Seas, NATURE / Animals / Marine Life, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Death, Grief, Bereavement, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / Anxieties & Phobias, PSYCHOLOGY / Movements / Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Fishes (Ichthyology), Zoology: fishes (ichthyology)