Downstream

pulverized. The swimmer
herself was in the happiest of
mood.’ She had beaten the
previous record holder, ‘an
Austrian lady’ who had swum
twenty miles in ten hours.
This was Madame Walburga
von Isacescu (her name is
spelt in a variety of ways),
presumably in the Danube
where, in 1902, she had
swum for twelve hours
between Melk and Vienna.
Two years earlier she had