Swimming In Paris

Author : Lisa Congdon
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781452146744

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The Joy of Swimming by Lisa Congdon Pdf

The acclaimed artist and author invites readers to dip into the many joys of swimming in this beautifully illustrate and “loving homage to aquatic bliss” (Brain Pickings). Best known as an artist, illustrator, and author, Lisa Congdon is also a record-breaking long-distance swimmer. Now she shares her personal passion for swimming in this beautiful and thoughtful celebration of getting in the water. Hand-lettered inspirational quotes and watercolor portraits are paired with real people's personal stories. Illustrated collections of vintage objects—such as colorful swim caps, traditional pool signs, and bathing suits through the ages—evoke the beauty and inspiration of the subject. An emphasis on swimming as a way of life—from taking a leap to going with the flow—makes this delightful volume a must-have for serious swimmers, vacation paddlers, and anyone pondering their next high dive.

Author : Colombe Schneck
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593655948

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Swimming in Paris by Colombe Schneck Pdf

From the award-winning and bestselling French author Colombe Schneck, a woman’s personal journey through abortion, sex, friendship, love, and swimming At fifty years old, while taking swimming lessons, I finally realized that my body was not actually as incompetent as I’d thought. My physical gestures had been, until then, small, worried, tense. In swimming I learned to extend them. I saw male bodies swimming beside me, and I swam past them, I was delighted, my breasts got smaller, my uterus stopped working. My body, by showing me who I was, allowed me to become fully myself. In Seventeen, Friendship, and Swimming, Colombe Schneck orchestrates a coming-of-age in three movements. Beautiful, masterfully controlled, yet filled with pathos, they invite the reader into a decades-long evolution of sexuality, bodily autonomy, friendship, and loss. Schneck’s prose maintains an unwavering intimacy, whether conjuring a teenage abortion in the midst of a privileged Parisian upbringing, the nuance of a long friendship, or a midlife romance. Swimming in Paris is an immersive, propulsive triptych—fundamentally human in its tender concern for every messy and glorious reality of the body, and deeply wise in its understanding of both desire and of letting go.

Author : Lynn Sherr
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-03
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781610390477

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Swim by Lynn Sherr Pdf

Swim is a celebration of swimming and the effect it has on our lives. It’s an inquiry into why we swim—the lure, the hold, the timeless magic of being in the water. It’s a look at how swimming has changed over the millennia, how this ancient activity is becoming more social than solitary today. It’s about our relationship with the water, with our fishy forebearers, and with the costumes that we wear. You’ll even find a few songs to sing when you push out those next laps. Swimming enthusiast Lynn Sherr explores every aspect of the sport, from the biology of swimming to the fame of Esther Williams; from turquoise pools and wild water to the training of Olympians; and she reveals the secret of buoyancy so that anyone can avoid the example of the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, who lamented, “Why can’t I swim, it seems so very easy?” When his friend, the biographer Edward John Trelawny, said, “because you think you can’t,” Shelley plunged into Italy’s Arno River and dropped like a rock. With Swim, you can avoid that happening to you.

Author : Cliff Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0473262738

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Swimming to Paris by Cliff Taylor Pdf

Author : Nina Vlotides
Publisher : A Hedonist's guide to...
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781905428052

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A Hedonist's Guide to Paris by Nina Vlotides Pdf

Described by Harpers & Queen as "a chic insider's guide for sophisticated travellers," these sleek, black city guides are aimed at the more discerning traveller looking to sidestep the usual tourist traps and penetrate the skin of each city.The Hedonist's Guide To series offers a definitive view of the finest restaurants, the most stylish hotels, the chicest bars, the best shopping, the most luxurious spas and the cultural highlights in each city. Individually tried and tested, every bar, restaurant, hotel, cafe and nightclub is accompanied by a photograph.

Author : Francis Hodgson
Publisher : Hatje Cantz
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Photography, Artistic
ISBN : 3775744096

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The Swimming Pool in Photography by Francis Hodgson Pdf

As long as already five thousand years ago, the allure of the sea inspired humans to recreate its essence in miniature, artistic forms, as public baths where ancient rituals would take place. Since then, it has become quite normal to immerse ourselves in cooling waters, in the privacy of our homes and without religious incentives. Swimming pools have rapidly become status symbols and the source for many diverse experiences: leisure-time athletics, relaxation, or the simple pleasure of just being in water. It is no wonder then that filmmakers and photographers constantly return to the swimming pool as a subject and setting. Reflections of water and light are captured in countless, unique ways in the more than two hundred compelling images that comprise this catalogue. Also included of course are the images of those who animate it. With works by: Abbas Attar, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Peter Marlow, Martin Parr, Alec Scoth, Alex Webb, and others.

Author : Colette Rossant
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780743442817

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Return to Paris by Colette Rossant Pdf

Paris, 1947: Colette Rossant returns to Paris after waiting out World War II in Cairo among her father's Egyptian-Jewish relatives. Initially, the City of Light seems gray and forbidding to the teenage Colette, especially after her thrill-seeking mother leaves her in the care of her bitter, malaisé grandmother. Yet Paris will prove the place where Colette awakens to her senses. Taken under the wing of Mademoiselle Georgette, the family chef, she develops a taste and talent for French cooking. The streets of Paris soon become Colette's own as she navigates the outdoor markets and café menus and emerges into her new, gastronomical self. Return to Paris is an extraordinary coming-of-age story that charts the course of Colette's culinary adventures -- replete with expertly crafted recipes and family photographs. An exploration of passion in all its flavor and texture, Colette's memoir will live in the hearts and palates of readers for years to come.

Author : Galignani, firm, publishers, Paris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1837
Category : Paris (France)
ISBN : NYPL:33433069356271

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Galignani's New Paris Guide by Galignani, firm, publishers, Paris Pdf

Author : Alan Hart
Publisher : How to Books
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : British
ISBN : 1857037340

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Living & Working in Paris by Alan Hart Pdf

Following the success of the author's Living and Working in France, this is a comprehensive handbook for anyone relocating, studying, temping, working on contract or buying a second home in Paris. The book includes useful contacts and websites.

Author : A. and W. Galignani (Firm)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1276 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1827
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044020314381

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New Paris Guide, Or Stranger's Companion Through the French Metropolis by A. and W. Galignani (Firm) Pdf

Author : Daniel Start
Publisher : Wild Things Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : France
ISBN : 0957157304

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Wild Swimming France by Daniel Start Pdf

"Swim beneath the great châteaux of the Loire and plunge into the azure-blue pools of Provence. relax in the secret hot springs of the Pyrenees and discover the unspoilt crater lakes of the Mont-Dore."--Back cover.

Author : Claire Fuller
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781487002169

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Swimming Lessons by Claire Fuller Pdf

From Desmond Elliot Prize winner Claire Fuller comes a family mystery about a woman’s disappearance and her daughter’s search for answers. In this spine-tingling tale Ingrid Coleman writes letters to her husband, Gil, about the truth of their marriage, but she never sends them. Instead she hides them within the thousands of books her husband has collected. After she writes her final letter, Ingrid disappears. Twelve years later, her adult daughter, Flora comes home to look after her injured father. Secretly, Flora has never believed her mother is dead, and she starts asking questions, without realizing that the answers she’s looking for are hidden in the books that surround her.

Author : Karen Eva Carr
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-18
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781789145779

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Shifting Currents by Karen Eva Carr Pdf

A deep dive into the history of aquatics that exposes centuries-old tensions of race, gender, and power at the root of many contemporary swimming controversies. Shifting Currents is an original and comprehensive history of swimming. It examines the tension that arose when non-swimming northerners met African and Southeast Asian swimmers. Using archaeological, textual, and art-historical sources, Karen Eva Carr shows how the water simultaneously attracted and repelled these northerners—swimming seemed uncanny, related to witchcraft and sin. Europeans used Africans’ and Native Americans’ swimming skills to justify enslaving them, but northerners also wanted to claim water’s power for themselves. They imagined that swimming would bring them health and demonstrate their scientific modernity. As Carr reveals, this unresolved tension still sexualizes women’s swimming and marginalizes Black and Indigenous swimmers today. Thus, the history of swimming offers a new lens through which to gain a clearer view of race, gender, and power on a centuries-long scale.

Author : Bill Mallon
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-11
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786489527

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The 1900 Olympic Games by Bill Mallon Pdf

The 1900 Olympic Games have been termed “The Farcical Games.” The events were poorly organized and years later many of the competitors had no idea that they had actually competed in the Olympics. They only knew that they had competed in an international sporting event in Paris in 1900. No official records of the 1900 Olympics exist. Based primarily on 1900 sources, the sites, dates, events, competitors, and nations as well as the event results are compiled herein for all of the 1900 Olympic events, including archery, track and field, cricket, equestrian, fencing, soccer, pelota basque, water polo, and rowing, among other sports.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Nuclear energy
ISBN : UCSD:31822042922971

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Nuclear Science Abstracts by Anonim Pdf