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Haunts Of The Black Masseur The Swimmer As Hero by Charles Sprawson
Category: Sport
As summer sends swimmers to the beach, here is a fascinating scrapbook about swimming, loaded with lore and suffused with the mystery of water.The New York Times Book Review. An elegant and enchanting celebration of the art of swimming in all its incarnations as sport, ritual, and consuming obsession d ...Show more
Haunts of the Black Masseur: The Swimmer as Hero by Charles Sprawson
Category: Sport
"Haunts of the Black Masseur" is a dazzling introduction to the great swimming heroes: Byron leaping into the surf at Shelley's beach funeral, Hart Crane, swallow-diving to his death in the Bay of Mexico, Ulysses, Leander, Weismuller and many more. In lively prose bursting with anecdote, Charles Sprawso ...Show more
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