![]() All legitimate fascination goes,” said Annette Kellerman, one of swimming’s grand dames. With a breezy touch, the author chronicles the evolution of public bathing, in the process revealing the disdain with which some purists view swimming pools: “Swimming under a roof to me is like big game hunting in a zoo. Sherr moves from the deep past, when immersing oneself was only typical during wartime, to Leander and Lord Byron making their own Hellespont dash, to Benjamin Franklin (who wrote, “I thought it likely, that if I were to remain in England and open a Swimming School, I might get a good deal of Money”), to the coming of spandex. That enthusiasm bleeds over into her history of swimming, which has a gratifyingly great sweep. Even when her comments are at their most random-e.g., “Swimming…allows you to dream big dreams”-her enthusiasm propels the book forward. A collection of swimming traditions and anecdotes wrapped in a celebration of the pleasures involved.įormer ABC News correspondent Sherr ( Outside the Box: My Unscripted Life of Love, Loss, and Television News, 2008, etc.) is a lifelong swimmer, and her passion for the act, from a lazy bobbing in gentle waves to a hard push across the Hellespont (aka the Dardanelles)-her story of which is tracked at intervals throughout the narrative-issues from each of these pages. ![]()
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