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Excerpt from "Swimming" from Wild Is the Wind: Poems by Carl Phillips. Copyright 2018 by Carl Phillips. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux. "Morning Swim" copyright 1965 by Maxine Kumin, from Selected Poems, 19601990 by Maxine Kumin. Used by permission of W.W. Norton & Co, Inc. Excerpt from "The Swimming Song" reprinted by permission of Loudon Wainwright III.



First published in the United States under the title: WHY WE SWIM

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1


       ,   ,                . "The Light in the Islands Were His Guiding Light," Morgunblai, March 12, 2004.




2


Coco Ballantyne, "Hypothermia: How Long Can Someone Survive in Frigid Water?" Scientific American, January 16, 2009.




3


"Why the Fat Icelander Survived His Arctic Swim," New Scientist, January 23, 1986.




4


"Exceptional Case of Survival in Cold Water," British Medical Journal 292 (January 18, 1986).




5


United Nations, "Factsheet: People and Oceans," Oceans Conference, June 2017, https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Ocean-fact-sheet-package.pdf (https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Ocean-fact-sheet-package.pdf).

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6


Tara Duggan, "California Abalone Season Sunk until 2021 to Give Stressed Population Time to Rebuild," San Francisco Chronicle, December 13, 2018.




7


John Branch, "Prized but Perilous Catch," NewYork Times, July 27, 2014.




8


"Cave of Swimmers, Egypt," The British Museum, https://africanrockart.britishmuseum.org/country/egypt/cave-of-swimmers/ (https://africanrockart.britishmuseum.org/country/egypt/cave-of-swimmers/) (accessed April 13, 2019); "Exploring the Rock Art of Gilf Kebir," Bradshaw Foundation, http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/africa/gilf_kebir_cave_of_swimmers/index.php (http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/africa/gilf_kebir_cave_of_swimmers/index.php) (accessed April 13, 2019); Stathis Avramidis, "World Art on Swimming," International Journal of Aquatic Research and Education 5 (2011).




9


Peter deMenocal and Jessica Tierney, "Green Sahara: African Humid Periods Paced by Earth's Orbital Changes," Nature Education Knowledge 3, no. 10.




10


Peter Gwin, "Lost Tribes of the Green Sahara," National Geographic, September 2008; National Geographic Society, "Stone Age Graveyard Reveals Lifestyles of a 'Green Sahara,'" Science Daily, August 15, 2008, https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080815101317.htm (https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080815101317.htm).




11


Helen Thompson, "Meet the Mighty Spinosaurus, the First Dinosaur Adapted for Swimming," Smithsonian, September 11, 2014.




12


.People, "50 Most Beautiful People of 1997," May 12, 1997.




13


Jennifer Blake, "Introduced Species Summary: Nile Perch (Lates niloticus)," Columbia University, http://www.columbia.edu/itc/cerc/danoff-burg/invasion_bio/inv_spp_summ/Lates_niloticus.htm (http://www.columbia.edu/itc/cerc/danoff-burg/invasion_bio/inv_spp_summ/Lates_niloticus.htm) (accessed April 13, 2019).




14


"Human Origins," Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, http://www.humanorigins.si.edu (http://www.humanorigins.si.edu/) (accessed April 13, 2019).




15


Andrew Lawler, "Neandertals, Stone Age People May Have Voyaged the Mediterranean," Science, April 24, 2018.




16


Chris Stringer, "Neanderthal Exploitation of Marine Mammals in Gibraltar," PNAS 105 (September 22, 2008).




17


Claire Marshall, "Global Flood Toll to Triple by 2030," BBC, March 5, 2015.




18


G.Griggs etal. (California Ocean Protection Council Science Advisory Team Working Group), Rising Seas in California: An Update on Sea-Level Rise Science, California Ocean Science Trust, April 2017, http://www.opc.ca.gov/webmaster/ftp/pdf/docs/rising-seas-in-california-anupdate-on-sea-level-rise-science.pdf; Kurtis Alexander, "Climate Change Report: California to See 77 Percent More Land Burned," San Francisco Chronicle, August 27, 2018.




19


Jennifer Senior, "Not if the Seas Rise, but When and How High," NewYork Times, November 22, 2017.

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20


Josh Gabbatiss, "The Strange Experiments That Revealed Most Mammals Can Swim," BBC Earth, March 21, 2017.




21


Renato Bender and Nicole Bender, "Swimming and Diving Behavior in Apes," American Journal of Physical Anthropology 152 (2013).




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23


E.Goksor etal., "Bradycardic Response during Submersion in Infant Swimming," Acta Pediatrica 91, no. 3 (March 2002); Kate Gammon, "Born to Swim?" Popular Science, March 6, 2014.




24


Plutarch, "The Life of Camillus," in The Parallel Lives, vol. 2, Loeb Classical Library (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1914).




25


"The History of Goggles," The International Swimming Hall of Fame, http://www.ishof.org/assets/the-history-of-swimming-goggles.pdf (accessed April 13, 2019).




26


"Diving Apparatus," Online Gallery: Leonardo da Vinci, The British Library, http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/leonardo/diving.html (http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/leonardo/diving.html) (accessed April 13, 2019).




27


National Research Council, Physiology of Breath-Hold Diving and the Ama of Japan: Papers (Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 1965), https://doi.org/10.17226/18843 (https://doi.org/10.17226/18843).




28


Benjamin Franklin, "The Art of Swimming," quoted in "Ben Franklin's Inventions," The Franklin Institute, http://www.fi.edu/benjamin-franklin/inventions (http://www.fi.edu/benjamin-franklin/inventions) (accessed April 13, 2019).




29


J. Emerson, Device for Teaching Swimming, US Patent 563,578, granted July 7, 1896, https://patents.google.com/patent/US563578 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US563578).




30


.The Publisher: The Journal of the Publishing Industry 89 (1908); "Deans, 'Miller Collection' rare 'Swimeesy Buoys,' original showcard 19081920," Vectis Auctions LTD, https://www.vectis.co.uk/deans-inch-miller-collection-inch-rare-swimeesy-buoys-originalshowcard-1908-1920_24498 (accessed April 13, 2019).




31


"New Ideas and Inventions," Popular Science, May 1930; Chop Yourself a Piece of Bathing Suit Wooden Swimming Outfits Make Their Appearance at Miami Ruth and Ruby Nolan Getting Dressed in Their New Spruce Swimming Suits, Made of Thin Strips of Wood [photograph], ca. 1930, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC, https://lccn.loc.gov/96524801 (https://lccn.loc.gov/96524801).

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