Free Download Institute of Nautical Archaeology. John M. McManamon, "Neither Letters nor Swimming"": The Rebirth of Swimming and Free-diving "
English | ISBN: 9004446206 | 2021 | 484 pages | PDF | 6 MB
In ""Neither Letters nor Swimming"": The Rebirth of Swimming and Free-diving, John McManamon documents the revival of interest in swimming during the European Renaissance and its conceptualization as an art. Renaissance scholars realized that the ancients considered one truly ignorant who knew neither letters nor swimming.