Haunts of the Black Masseur is a dazzling introduction to the great swimming heroes: Byron leaping into the surf at Shelley’s beach funeral, Hart Crane, swallow-diving to his death in the Bay of Mexico, Ulysses, Leander, Weismuller and many more. In lively prose bursting with anecdote, Charles Sprawson leads us into a watery world populated by lithe demi-Gods – one that has obsessed humans from the ancient Greeks and Romans, to Yeats, Virginia Woolf, F. Scott Fitzgerald and David Hockney. Original, enticing and dripping with references to literature, film, art and Olympic history, this cult swimming classic pays sparkling tribute to water and the cultural meanings we attach to it.

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So much to do so little time so best to start early. Full of things to make achieve learn (and some things you shouldn’t learn) this is the perfect handbook for any child who wants to revel in being young and not-boring. Can you…Make an origami crane? Lie convincingly? Operate as a spy? Parents may need these skills (not origami) to wrest their child’s copy from them and indulge in all the fun they should have had…

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So much to do so little time so best to start early. Full of things to make achieve learn (and some things you shouldn’t learn) this is the perfect handbook for any child who wants to revel in being young and not-boring. Can you…Make an origami crane? Lie convincingly? Operate as a spy? Parents may need these skills (not origami) to wrest their child’s copy from them and indulge in all the fun they should have had…

Price : £ 5.81

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