Rapture on the Lonely Shore, Society by the Deep Sea – The Birth of Marathon Swimming. Part 2
In the last part we closed with Byron’s continued explanation of his Hellespont swim to Mr. Turner, (below again). “With regard to the difference of the current, I perceived none; it is favourable to the swimmer on neither aide, but may be stemmed by plunging into the sea, a considerable way above the opposite point of…