Shifting Currents : A World History of Swimming.

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Introduction
Part I: Learning to Swim
1. Once Everyone Could Swim
2. Leaving Africa
3. A Northern Swimming Hole
4. Danger, Sex, Gods and Strangers
5. Learning to Swim
6. Ancient Greece and Rome
7. Soldiers and Divers
Part II: Forgetting How to Swim
8. Medieval Asia
9. Medieval Europe
10. Central Asian Power
11. A Famous Drowning
12. The Little Ice Age
Part III: Still Swimming
13. African Swimmers
14. In the Americas
15. China and the Pacific Ocean
16. Floating for Witchcraft
17. Ducking Stools
Part IV: Changing Places
18. The Avant-garde
19. The Middle Class
20. Out with the Old, In with the New
21. Swimming is So Last Century
22. Everyone Out of the Water
Epilogue
Chronology
References
Further Reading
Acknowledgements
Photo Acknowledgements
Index.