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Discovering Our Natural Element

Mark Archer HAUNTS OF THE BLACK MASSEUR: THE SWIMMER AS HERO by Charles Sprawson Cape, £15.99, pp. 307 F amous literary swimmers are a fascinat- ing breed. Shelley and Swinburne......

The Importance Of Being Different

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