oceans
The deep, the wide, and the people who crossed it.
What For
In 1926 a twenty-year-old swam the English Channel faster than any man alive — and her trainer spent the worst hour of it begging her to quit.
The Admiral and the Unicorn
A giraffe walked into the Ming court in 1414, and the Confucian scholars decided it was proof from heaven.
The Man Who Could Not Swim
He crossed every ocean alone and considered learning to swim entirely pointless.