Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring in the 1960’s, one of the most important and influential books of the 20th century. But ten years previously she wrote another best-seller, The Sea Around Us. Carson was a biologist and in The Sea Around Us she stepped out of her familiar world and into the marine world. Amongst…
Lighthouses convey universal ideas of danger, sacrifice, idealistic nobility and hope against hope when all may be otherwise lost. If you are a sailor particularly, they are one of the most evoctive images you know, and if you go to sea at all, even as sea-swimmer, you cannot but help be struck by the contrast…
The story of Capt. Matthew Webb is the starting point for modern Open Water swimming. While there are other famous open water swims from before this time, Byron & Hellespont being the most famous, the dream of swimming the English channel was alive and well in the late 19th century, with other attempts before Webb’s…
by Bill Sweetenham & John Atkinson. Sweetenham is the coach behind the Australian swimming success and the recent edition of this book has a foreword by Ian Thorpe. I bought an older edition but it’s a very good competitive swimming book. The book is in 2 parts, I Techniques & Drills, and II Workouts &…
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