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Strokes of GeniusDive into the captivating world of swimming with Eric Chaline's exploration, 'Pleasure Beckons at the Water's Edge.' This BRAND NEW title (ISBN: 9781780238197) published by Reaktion Books in 2017 is perfect for swimming enthusiasts and cultural historians alike. Chaline's work elegantly deciphers the rich history of swimming from its early roots in prehistory to its development into an integral leisure activity and competitive sport. The book uncovers
Dive into the captivating world of swimming with Eric Chaline's exploration, 'Pleasure Beckons at the Water's Edge.' This BRAND NEW title (ISBN: 9781780238197) published by Reaktion Books in 2017 is perfect for swimming enthusiasts and cultural historians alike. Chaline's work elegantly deciphers the rich history of swimming from its early roots in prehistory to its development into an integral leisure activity and competitive sport. The book uncovers the profound connections between swimming and various aspects of human life, including religious rituals, trade, warfare, and even medicine.Throughout this engrossing narrative, swimming emerges as a powerful symbol of not only leisure and endurance but also adventure, exploration, and excellence. This book delves into the physicality and sensuality of swimming, revealing how these elements might have influenced human evolution. Wild swimmers celebrate swimming as a pathway to spiritual awakening, highlighting the discipline and mental clarity that this water-based activity can foster.
Whether you are looking to understand swimming's cultural significance or embrace its transformative power, this book captures the fluid currents of our aquatic heritage and future. Perfect as a gift or for personal exploration, it reinforces swimming as a key component of human experience across time.
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ISBN: 9781780238197
Year: 2017
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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'Pleasure beckons at the water's edge.'
With these words, Eric Chaline celebrates the physicality and sensuality of swimming —attributes that might have contributed to the evolution of the human species. Chaline's comprehensive account surveys swimming from prehistory to the present day. He decodes the earliest human myths to reconstruct swimming's prehistory and history; he explains its role in religious rituals, trade and manufacture, warfare and medicine, and chronicles its transformation into the leisure activity and competitive sport that together have made it the most commonly practiced physical pastime in the developed world.
Swimming is now a cultural marker that stands for eroticism, leisure, endurance, adventure, exploration, and excellence, and latterly, like other disciplines that use repetitive movements to discipline the body and still the mind, it is held by wild swimmers to be a lane to spiritual awakening —one stroke at a time. There is no single story of human swimming, but many currents that merge, diverge, and remerge towards a future in which our survival may depend on our ability to adapt to life in an aquatic world.
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If only we were all taught these basic skills before we leave home. Unfortunately, that is not always the case. This is where a book like Life Skills comes in as an excellent teacher of learning those necessary skills! Great book, easy to understand, full of great advice.
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Some of the information is inaccurate or out of date such as the food pyramid. Much of should have been learned long before they are ready to leave home. But some of it such as the simple recipes and the cleaning solutions are useful. I wish the author had spent a little time to address teens with disabilities and other special circumstances. All in all a decent book but the author could have done so much more.
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My Dad likes the history which he has learned from Jim Clyburn. He learned more details about the Eight.
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Clyburn captures the past to warn us about the present and future.
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I enjoy this book. The history of white Conservatives first taking the black vote away by domestic terrorism and violence and then changing the rules to make getting the vote back nearly impossible explains the 70 year gap between the first eight and the ninth (Clyburn). He mixes the past record of lying and dirty tricks of Conservatives with current events that attempt to bring about the same result. Thanks for all of your work in bringing this great history. It should admonish all of us to work to make sure we don't fall victim to the lying and dirty tricks of the Conservatives of the present.
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