{"product_id":"9780156034678","title":"Grayson","description":"\u003ci\u003eGrayson\u003c\/i\u003e is Lynne Cox's first book since \u003ci\u003eSwimming to Antarctica\u003c\/i\u003e (\"Riveting\"-\u003ci\u003eSports Illustrated;\u003c\/i\u003e \"Pitch-perfect\"-\u003ci\u003eOutside\u003c\/i\u003e). In it she tells the story of a miraculous ocean encounter that happened to her when she was seventeen and in training for a big swim (she had already swum the English Channel, twice, and the Catalina Channel).  \u003cp\u003e  It was the dark of early morning; Lynne was in 55-degree water as smooth as black ice, two hundred yards offshore, outside the wave break. She was swimming her last half-mile back to the pier before heading home for breakfast when she became aware that something was swimming with her. The ocean was charged with energy as if a squall was moving in; thousands of baby anchovy darted through the water like lit sparklers, trying to evade something larger. Whatever it was, it felt large enough to be a white shark coursing beneath her body.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e    It wasn't a shark. It became clear that it was a baby gray whale-following alongside Lynne for a mile or so. Lynne had been swimming for more than an hour; she needed to get out of the water to rest, but she realized that if she did, the young calf would follow her onto shore and die from collapsed lungs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e    The baby whale-eighteen feet long!-was migrating on a three-month trek to its feeding grounds in the Bering Sea, an eight-thousand-mile journey. It would have to be carried on its mother's back for much of that distance, and was dependent on its mother's milk for food-baby whales drink up to fifty gallons of milk a day. If Lynne didn't find the mother whale, the baby would suffer from dehydration and starve to death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e    Something so enormous-the mother whale was fifty feet long-suddenly seemed very small in the vast Pacific Ocean. How could Lynne possibly find her?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e    This is the story-part mystery, part magical tale-of what happened . . .    \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Houghton Mifflin Harcourt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47008715735280,"sku":"9780156034678","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780156034678_p0.jpg?v=1763779526","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780156034678","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}