The Complete Beginner's Guide to Swimming,

by Shaney Frey

Book Overview

A beginner's introduction to swimming, including hints on the fundamentals, advanced techniques, water safety, and competitive swimming. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385048017
• ISBN13: 9780385048019
• Release Date: January 1975
• Publisher: Doubleday Books
• Length: 191 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Timeless beginner's guide to swimming

Swimming is the best all-around exercise for your whole body no matter what your age. After you have learned to swim well, you can pursue any of the numerous and enjoyable water sports with safety. Here is all of the various information the newcomer to swimming needs to know to master the skills involved and have a safe and pleasant time in the water. Just as astronauts explore the heavens, aquanauts search the oceans depths for knowledge that is vital to our lives and to the survival of our planet. Some scientists work under water in an effort to save our polluted waters. Many young people learn swimming skills in the hope that they will be valuable tools in the future. If you wish to work toward expanding your scope of experience either for pleasure or for serious purpose -- then this book was written for you. Hank and Shaney Frey are also the authors of Diver Below!. Hank Frey is the author of Camera Below. Shaney Frey is the author of The Complete Beginner's Guide to Skin Diving (1965), The Complete Beginner's Guide to Swimming (1975), and Ocean Echoes: A Dolphin Tale (published in 2009).