Continuing the series of posts from my new book SPLASH!
From the Epilogue: “My Watery Life”
A family triple-decker from the later half of the 1980s: I’m at the bottom, son Nathan is in the middle, and daughter Ihrie is on top. (Credit: Candy Means.)
Continuing the series of posts from my new book SPLASH!
From the Epilogue: “My Watery Life”
Continuing the series of posts from my new book SPLASH!
From Chapter 2:
A coin from the late 2nd century, depicting Leander swimming the Hellespont to be with his beloved Hero. His last swim did not go well for either party.
Continuing the series of posts from my new book SPLASH!
This is from Chapter 2, “Swimming’s Golden Age.” The interior of the Tomb of the Diver, circa 470 BCE, discovered at Paestum in the Campania region of Italy. (Credit: courtesy of author.)
Continuing the series of posts from my new book SPLASH!
This is from Chapter 1: “Gods, Humans, and the Aquatic Ape. Proto-swimming? Nine centuries before the Christian Era, Assyrian warriors were using inflated animal bladders to surprise their enemies. (Credit: BibleLandPictures.com / Alamy Stock Photo.)
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Continuing the series of posts from my new book SPLASH!
This is from Chapter 1, “Gods, Humans, and the Aquatic Ape”:
Up until about age six months, an infant’s windpipe automatically closes underwater, an indication perhaps of our aquatic heritage. (Credit: Affebook, altered to black & white.)
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From the Prologue
Once Upon a Time in Egypt