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Review: Shifting Currents: A world history of swimming – Karen Eva Carr
(University of Chicago Press)
One of my life’s aims is to swim in as many lakes, rivers, pools and oceans as
I possibly can, to use my liberty and swimming skills as freely as I can. I
love the feeling of being in a large, fresh body of water, its soft immersive,
vast or deep buoyancy.
I’ve swum in a freshwater lagoon near Acapulco in Mexico, with the guide
reassuring us there were no crocodiles in the water that day. I’ve swum in a
busy London indoor pool noisy with swimmers thrashing about and in Australia’s
only women’s pool. I’ve swum in the
Weisser See lake on the outskirts of
Berlin, the same lake that my grandmother swam in, before fleeing Germany. At
Jaffa’s Alma/al-Manshiyah Beach, in Tel Aviv, I’ve looked up from the sea to
the Mahmoudiya Mosque’s minaret.
I’ve marvelled at finding myself in waters so far from home. It turns out that
my ability to swim makes me part of an elite."
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*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
