Splash! : 10,000 Years of Swimming by Howard Means (Paperback)

Splash! : 10,000 Years of Swimming by Howard Means (Paperback)From the first recorded dip into what's 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

a band of marauding Gaels are roaming around

We tend to treat our sadness individually

took action

a ribbon marker and sprayed gold edges

and instead dare to listen to and trust in the voice deep inside us

Tá Zog sona sásta sa Scoil Dragún

The great Irish writer envisages the lives of the Boko Haram girls

both are sad

who fought back and refused to accept the lives into which they were born

McCann began to craft Apeirogon

With an insightful introduction by Neil Philip

hardworking insects have transformed our lives with their quiet diligence