Splash! : 10,000 Years Of Swimming

Description: Choose a stroke and get paddling through the human history of swimming! From man's first recorded dip into what's now the driest spot on earth to the splashing sparkling pool party in your backyard humans have been getting wet for 10,000 years. And for most of modern history swimming has caused a ripple that touches us all - - the heroes and the ordinary folk; the real and the mythic. 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 reemerges in the wake of the Renaissance before taking its final lap at today's Olympic games. Along the way it kicks away the idea that swimming is just about moving through water about speed or great feats of aquatic endurance and shows you how much more it can be. Its history offers a multi - tiered tour through religion fashion architecture sanitation and public health colonialism segregation and integration sexism sexiness guts glory and much much more. Unique and compelling Splash! sweeps across the whole of humankind's swimming history - - and just like jumping into a pool on a hot summer's day it has fun along the way.
Title: Splash! : 10,000 Years Of Swimming
Barcode: 9780306845666
Pages: 336 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 6/2/2020