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 Georgie Codd is afraid of fish. Really, really afraid. Anxious that her phobia could last a lifetime, Georgie plots to travel to Thailand, learn to dive and swim with the biggest fish in the world: the mighty whale shark. Quitting her job and the trappings of home, she plunges into a realm of strange creatures and intrepid diving adventurers. But as Georgie's quest expands across the oceans, her shark remains elusive, and everything else starts to fall apart around her. ' We Swim to the Shark is a lesson in not giving up, demonstrating that, as with all good adventure stories, the real benefit is in the searching' The i 'A terrific read' BBC Radio Norfolk 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

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, 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)