Haunts of the Black Masseur: The Swimmer as Hero (Vintage Classics) by Charles Sprawson
English | October 6th, 2009 | ASIN: B0034FJGCG, ISBN: 0679420517, 0816635390 | 336 Pages | EPUB | 0.99 MB
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 Sprawson leads us into a watery world populated by lithe demi-Gods – one that has obsessed humans from the ancient Greeks and Romans, to Yeats, Virginia Woolf, F. Scott Fitzgerald and David Hockney.