Category: Swimming
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De Arte Natandi
Continuing to catch up with delayed posts, my attention was caught by a piece in the Guardian magazine a couple of weekends ago, on river and lake swimming. Two books have recently appeared on the subject, and this was a review by Margaret Drabble of one of them, by Kate Rew, published by the newspaper…
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River swimming
"So ought each knight, that use of perill has,In swimming be expert, through waters force to pas".Spenser, The Faërie Queene, v.ii.16In this April heatwave, in the absence of shoures soothe, I have been thinking of river swimming. I have never swum in a river down here, indeed have not swum in inland waters since last…