Splash! 10,000 Years of Swimming
SPLASH! 10,000 Years of Swimming is a book written by Howard Means, published in June 2020.
2020 WOWSA Awards
Splash! 10,000 Years of Swimming by Howard Means was nominated for the 2020 WOWSA Awards in the World Open Water Swimming Offering of the Year category with the following nomination: Open water swimming is considered the newest niche of aquatic sports, with its introduction at the Summer Olympic Games coming in 2008. However, mankind has been swimming in oceans, seas, lakes, rivers and bays for millennia. Howard Means takes readers of Splash! 10,000 Years of Swimming through the long history of open water swimming from mankind's earliest ventures beyond the shorelines to the upcoming Tokyo Olympics. Filled with wit and humor, Means tells the fascinating history of how, where and why humans swim - a sport that has been transformed during the COVID-19 pandemic with global closures of pools and a resurrection of people flocking to open water venues. For researching and teaching swimmers how their chosen aquatic activities came to be, for sharing swimming stories from Egypt, Greece and Rome through the Dark Ages, Middle Ages and Renaissance, and for explaining how swimming interacts with religion, fashion, public health, segregation, sexism and athletic glory, Splash! 10,000 Years of Swimming by Howard Means is a worthy nominee for the 2020 World Open Water Swimming Offering of the Year.
