Swimming in Time

Three Rivers author Robert Winder explains why river swimming is an immersion in the past

Swimming in rivers has been a deep human urge since Achilles was dipped into the Styx by his mother and Moses drifted down the Nile in his basket of reeds. It was an everyday event in ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome – an extension of the desire to flex muscles, gather fish or cross the water at a time of few bridges.