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Taking the Plunge

2019 Swimming
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Release : 2019
Genre : Swimming
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Book Rating : 688/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Taking the Plunge by : Anna Deacon

Download or read book Taking the Plunge written by Anna Deacon. This book was released on 2019. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thrill of plunging--or dipping a toe--into open water brings joy, confidence, adventure, and friendship. It can wash away stress and sadness, pain and grief. Here water is a great healer, a place to feel gloriously, elementally alive and in touch with yourself, with others, and with nature. Full of life-affirming personal stories and breath-taking images of scenery and swimmers, this bookcelebrates the remarkable wild swimming community. With practical advice on how wild swimming works and how to get started--from what you'll need (a swimsuit and a smile ) to where best to go (rivers, oceans, lochs, lakes . . .)--there's never been a better time to take the plunge.

Taking the Plunge

2009 Dating (Social customs)
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Release : 2009
Genre : Dating (Social customs)
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Book Rating : 227/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Taking the Plunge by : Helen Bailey

Download or read book Taking the Plunge written by Helen Bailey. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Electra's finally taking the plunge. After all, her friend Lucy did it in France, while Claudia's done it loads of times and has bet Electra she won't. She will, though. She's going to go out with the first boy who asks her. But what if he turns out to be a frog and not a prince? She can be VERY shallow. Ages 12+.

Take the Plunge

2012-04-19 Religion
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Release : 2012-04-19
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 190/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Take the Plunge by : Timothy Radcliffe

Download or read book Take the Plunge written by Timothy Radcliffe. This book was released on 2012-04-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take the Plunge explores baptism, showing how it touches the deepest dramas of human life. Timothy Radcliffe holds a unique position in the modern Catholic Church. As Master of the Dominican Order in Rome for nine years, he held one of the most senior and influential appointments the Catholic Church has on offer. But he is a member of an Order of Preachers and is thus truly apostolic. The order's motto consists of one word, Veritas (Truth), and it is the vigorous pursuit of intellectual and emotional truth which is the hallmark of his writing. This new book will not disappoint his admirers. Here, Fr Radcliffe argues that Christianity will only thrive today, overcoming the challenges of secularism and religious fundamentalism, if we rediscover the beauty of baptism. It touches the deepest dramas of human life: birth, growing up, falling in love, daring to give oneself to others, searching for meaning, coping with suffering and failure, and eventually death.

Taking the Plunge

2010 Christianity
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Release : 2010
Genre : Christianity
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Book Synopsis Taking the Plunge by : Chris Gabbard

Download or read book Taking the Plunge written by Chris Gabbard. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Haunts of the Black Masseur

2012-08-29 Sports & Recreation
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Release : 2012-08-29
Genre : Sports & Recreation
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Book Rating : 644/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Haunts of the Black Masseur by : Charles Sprawson

Download or read book Haunts of the Black Masseur written by Charles Sprawson. This book was released on 2012-08-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a masterful work of cultural history, Charles Sprawson, himself an obsessional swimmer and fluent diver, explores the meaning that different cultures have attached to water, and the search for the springs of classical antiquity. In nineteenth-century England bathing was thought to be an instrument of social and moral reform, while in Germany and America swimming came to signify escape. For the Japanese the swimmer became an expression of samurai pride and nationalism. Sprawson gives is fascinating glimpses of the great swimming heroes: Byron leaping dramatically into the surf at Shelley’s beach funeral; Rupert Brooke swimming naked with Virginia Woolf, the dark water “smelling of mint and mud”; Hart Crane swallow-diving to his death in the Bay of Mexico; Edgar Allan Poe’s lone and mysterious river-swims; Leander, Webb, Weissmuller, and a host of others. Informed by the literature of Swinburne, Goethe, Scott Fitzgerald, and Yukio Mishima; the films of Riefenstahl and Vigo; the Hollywood “swimming musicals” of the 1930s; and delving in and out of Olympic history, Haunts of the Black Masseur is an enthralling assessment of man—body submerged, self-absorbed. It is quite simply the best celebration of swimming ever written, even as it explores aspects of culture in a heretofore unimagined way.

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