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Splash!: 10,000 Years of Swimming
Splash!: 10,000 Years of Swimming
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Splash! is a fascinating history of swimming, from the first recorded dip to the modern Olympic Games. It explores how swimming has touched us all, from religion to fashion, architecture, public health, colonialism, segregation, sexism, sexiness, guts, glory, and more.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 336 pages
Publication date: 01 July 2021
Publisher: Atlantic Books
From the first recorded dip into what is now the driest spot on Earth to the recreational swimmers in your local pool, humans have been getting wet for 10,000 years. And for most of modern history, swimming has caused a ripple that touches us all.
Splash! dives into Egypt, winds through ancient Greece and Rome, flows mostly underground through the Dark and Middle Ages (at least in Europe), and then re-emerges in the wake of the Renaissance before taking its final lap at the modern Olympic Games. Along the way, it kicks away the idea that swimming is just about speed or great feats of aquatic endurance, revealing how its history spans religion, fashion, architecture, public health, colonialism, segregation, sexism, sexiness, guts, glory, and much, much more.
As refreshing as jumping into a pool on a hot summer's day, Splash! sweeps across the whole of humankind's swimming history with an irrepressible enthusiasm that will make you crave your next dip.
Weight: 318g
Dimension: 129 x 199 x 28 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781911630838
Edition number: Main
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