Swimming with my granddaughters put me in mind of Charles Kingsley’s “Water Babies.” Kingsley helped us enter into the rich imaginative lives of children.
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Swimming with the Water Babies
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Crossing (or Not) the Hellespont
I revisited Byron’s poem about swimming the Hellespont/Dardanelles after a friend tried the feat.
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Beowulf, an Early Olympic Swimmer
Beowulf engages in a swimming contest of Olympian dimensions.
