L'art de nager le crawl est aussi un art de vivre, comme l'explique Johnny Weissmuller, champion de légende et acteur mythique.Dans la vie, il existe deux catégories de personnes : celles qui barbotent gentiment et celles qui nagent vraiment. Recordman du 100 mètres nage libre et plusieurs fois champion olympique, Johnny Weissmuller (1904-1984) faisait indéniablement partie du second camp.
Mais le Tarzan le plus célèbre d'Hollywood n'avait rien d'un homme-singe perdu dans la jungle. Il se voyait plutôt comme un pédagogue en slip de bain, motivé par l'envie de partager son art. En 1931, il écrit donc
L'Art de nager le crawl. L'ouvrage rassemble tous ses conseils pour parvenir au mouvement parfait et goûter à cette sensation unique dans l'eau, cette fluidité des grands champions.
Guide pratique pour tous ceux qui veulent passer l'été la tête haute tout en contribuant à rendre nos plages plus élégantes,
L'Art de nager le crawl est aussi un délicieux et iconoclaste traité d'art de vivre. Un livre original qui plaira à tous les nageurs - débutants ou confirmés - ainsi qu'aux amateurs de curiosités littéraires.
In the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Yale University there lies a 400-year-old document that no one has been able to decipher. Twenty years ago the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) secretly placed a guard to watch over the document.
The guard, Father Ronald McCallum, is overwhelmed when an autistic child visiting the library appears to read from the manuscript's pages. Finally its secrets will be revealed! Father Benicio Valori, priest and clinical psychologist, is sent halfway around the world to verify the boy's ability to read the manuscript.
When the manuscript is stolen, things begin to unravel. It becomes apparent the Vatican has sent others to investigate with orders to stop at nothing from keeping the document's secrets from being exposed. Fearing for the child's life, Benicio flees the country to Canada and trusted friend and psychologist, Dr. Jake Tunnel.
Despite being distraught by the diagnosis of a brain tumor in his five-year-old son, Jake reluctantly agrees to help his old friend. As events unfold, Jake is drawn into the mystery. Soon he and Benicio begin to unveil the biblical origins of the Voynich manuscript and why this autistic child can read it.
They realize that the Voynich Manuscript is the bible of the Nephilim - soulless beings created by the crossbreeding of angels and humans, and despised by God. The angels responsible for their creation were banished from heaven and the monstrous offspring were thought to be destroyed by the flood of Noah's time. Having the ability to read the manuscript leads Benicio and Jake to believe that Matthew must be a descendent of the Nephilim. And that the Vatican wants him and the book destroyed to protect the Church's followers from the truth of God's mistake.
