{"product_id":"splash-10-000-years-of-swimming-1","title":"Splash!: 10,000 Years of Swimming","description":"Choose a stroke and get paddling through the human history of swimming!\n\nFrom 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.\n\nSplash! dives into Egypt, winds through ancient Greece and Rome, flows mostly underground through the Dark and Middle Ages (at least in Europe), and then reemerges in the wake of the Renaissance before taking its final lap at today's Olympic games. Along the way, it kicks away the idea that swimming is just about moving through water, about speed or great feats of aquatic endurance, and shows you how much more it can be. Its history offers a multi-tiered tour through religion, fashion, architecture, sanitation and public health, colonialism, segregation and integration, sexism, sexiness, guts, glory, and much, much more.\n\nUnique and compelling, Splash! sweeps across the whole of humankind's swimming history--and just like jumping into a pool on a hot summer's day, it has fun along the way.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0306845660\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: 4EKTGN00297R_ns\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Means, Howard\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41602565898298,"sku":"4EKTGN00297R_ns","price":8.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/0306845660-0_6976433e-93fe-423a-89ce-78352bba2efe.jpg?v=1787111504","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/splash-10-000-years-of-swimming-1","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}