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Hardcover

Splash!: 10,000 Years of Swimming

by Howard Means

$22.42 / copy at 25+ copies As low as $18.62 at 1,000+Your best volume price

Hardcover · 336 pages Grand Central Publishing · 2020

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Splash!

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.


The book, Splash!: 10,000 Years of Swimming [Bulk, Wholesale, Quantity] ISBN#9780306845666 in Hardcover by Howard Means may be ordered in bulk quantities. Minimum starts at 25 copies. Availability based on publisher status and quantity being ordered.

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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Author
Howard Means
Language
English
Format
Hardcover
Published
Jun 2, 2020
Pages
336
ISBN-13
9780306845666
ISBN-10
0306845660
Carton quantity
20 copies
Printing
Printed on demand
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