Splash!: 10,000 Years of Swimming

by Howard Means

Book Overview

Choose a stroke and get paddling through the human history of swimming
From man's first recorded dip into what's now the driest spot on earth to the splashing, sparkling pool party in your backyard, humans have been getting wet for 10,000 years. And for most of modern history, swimming has caused a ripple that touches us all--the heroes and the ordinary folk; the real and the mythic.
Splash dives into Egypt, winds through...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306845660
• ISBN13: 9780306845666
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Hachette Books
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.0"