Sprawson makes a splash
John Bayley, 23 July 1992
Haunts of the Black Masseur: The Swimmer as Hero
by Charles Sprawson.
Cape, 307 pp., £15.99, June 1992,0 224 02730 1 Show More
by Charles Sprawson.
Cape, 307 pp., £15.99, June 1992,
“... Bothy of Tober Na Vuolich’ he describes a Highland torrent where among the granite boulders and green deeps ‘you are left alone with yourself and the goddess of bathing’.The goddess was a great inspiration. Poe is said to have written ‘Helen, thy beauty is to me’ after seeing a lady on a beach, and perhaps to get over it he swam for miles up the ... ”