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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…

September 1, 2016 in Open Water swimming.
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…

August 17, 2016 in Marathon swimming, Open Water swimming, Swim Reports.

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