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(Lynn Cox)
Neurologist Oliver Sacks shares his latest book, Vintage Sacks. Then Lynne Cox, one of the world’s best long-distance swimmers, is here to explain why she’s chosen to swim around the shark-infested Cape of Good Hope and across the Bering Strait from Alaska to the Soviet Union. She’s also swum in Antarctic waters, across the English Channel, and through the sewage-infested Nile. Plus, Somali writer Nuruddin Farah shares his latest novel, Links. And James McManus describes the allure of Vegas casino life.
Oliver Sacks
Physician, neurologist, and writer Oliver Sacks previous books include Awakenings, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, and Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood. He shares his latest book Vintage Sacks.
» Visit Oliver Sacks’s website
» Visit Oliver Sacks’s website
Lynne Cox
By age 16, Lynne Cox had broken both the men’s and women’s records for swimming across the English Channel. Her new book is Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer.
Nuruddin Farah
Mogadishu, once a lovely, cosmopolitan city, has become chaotic since Somalia erupted in civil war in the early 1990s. Jeebleh, the main character of Nuruddin Farah’s new novel, Links, is revisiting Mogadishu for the first time in 20 years after living in New York - the novel looks at the ...
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