Swim is a celebration of swimming and the effect it has on our lives.
With Swim , you can avoid that happening to you..
Swimming enthusiast Lynn Sherr explores every aspect of the sport, from the biology of swimming to the fame of Esther Williams; from turquoise pools and wild Water to the training of Olympians; and she reveals the secret of buoyancy so that anyone can avoid the example of the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, who lamented, Why can\'t I swim, it seems so very easy? When his friend, the biographer Edward John Trelawny, said, because you think you can\'t, Shelley plunged into Italy\'s Arno River and dropped like a rock.
You\'ll even find a few songs to sing when you push out those next laps.
It\'s about our relationship with the water, with our fishy forebearers, and with the costumes that we wear.
It\'s a look at how swimming has changed over the millennia, how this ancient activity is becoming more social than solitary today.
It\'s an inquiry into why we swim--the lure, the hold, the timeless magic of being in the water.
Swim is a celebration of swimming and the effect it has on our lives
