A quote from Lord Byron: There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar: I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

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…

An Oblique Map of the Dardanelles formerly known as the Hellespont strait

“We Enter on our Nautical Existence” – The Birth of Marathon Swimming – Part 1

I had intended this article to cover further the articles shared by Nick Adams from the turn of the last century, but I realised that I would have to digress from those accounts and go back to the classical origins that inspired the sport and thence to those whom the origins inspired. Hence, I’ve altered the…

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Rapture on the Lonely Shore, Society by the Deep Sea – The Birth of Marathon Swimming. Part 2

“We Enter on our Nautical Existence” – The Birth of Marathon Swimming – Part 1