Stokes of Genius : A History of Swimming by Eric C.Splash! 10,000 Years of Swimming by Howard Means. Blessed - The Breakout Year of Rampaging Roy Slave.Darelle and Sally's Swimming Adventures (18).See also Swimming Australia One Hundred Years (University of NSW Press, 2008). For that I recommend the ABC TV documentary, The Pool, and Pool, a book which accompanied Australia's official entry at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2016. Neither spend any time considering the role of the public pool in Australia. A global history of swimming, from humankinds first dip in what is now the driest spot on earth to the modern Olympic. Means focuses a little more on the United State, Chaline on Europe. Looks at changes in clothing worn for swimming, bathing boxes, competitive and recreational swimming. Neither accepts it as it is still open to debate.īoth books traverse the evidence for swimming in the Ancient World, and through the Middle Ages and Renaissance to the current day. Published by Allen and Unwin, London, 2020.Ĭovers very similar territory to Strokes of Genius: A History of Swimming by Eric Chaline (Reaktion Books, London, 2017). Means references Chaline.īoth cover the theory of "the aquatic ape" - the theory that at some time, human ancestors spent time as water-based mammals, and so swimming has some genetic component.
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