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The Eiffel Tower over Paris rooftops at dawn, the sky pale pink, chimneys in the foreground.

Shangri-La, Paris

The Eiffel Tower over Paris rooftops at dawn, the sky pale pink, chimneys in the foreground.

Shangri-La, Paris

A pool in a prince's stables, across the river from the tower.

Old pier posts standing in a still lake at dusk, the sky fading from pink to blue.

A hot room, invented separately in Finland, Istanbul and Japan.

A steel ladder going down from a wooden deck into dark water broken with sheets of ice.

A mile, in water at 41°F or colder, in a swimsuit, a cap and goggles.

Rock pools walled off from the Atlantic by black volcanic rock, white water breaking around them, Portugal.

Bondi, Leça da Palmeira, Sandycove. Two walls and none.

The Trocadéro esplanade before dawn in winter, the Eiffel Tower dark against a sky just turning red.

Paris, Before Paris Wakes

Paris belongs to the runner until about eight.

Sarah Bernhardt in costume as Cleopatra, photographed by Napoleon Sarony in 1891.

The Top Seducers of All Time

An archive favorite, kept for the cast. Charm, studied as a craft.

A lone figure standing in shallow water against a wide blue horizon.

The science of why you are calmer near water, such as it is.

Clear blue water breaking against pale rocks on the north coast of Ibiza.

Los Enamorados, Portinatx

Nine rooms over a boathouse, at the top of Ibiza.

A swimmer moves down through open salt water, seen from below the surface.

Salt Water Is Not a Metaphor

The sea has been on prescription since 1750. Some of the prescription still holds.

An alpine village under snow at dusk, a church spire and lit windows, mountains behind.

Built by a schoolteacher. Kept by one family. Pool since 1928.

Spools of yellow, red and black yarn stacked on trolleys on a mill floor.

Who Makes Our Fabric

Six mills you can stand in, and the one question we cannot close yet.

Dune grass bent by wind on a wide beach, figures walking at the waterline.

The Named Winds

A wind gets a name when enough people have had to plan the week around it.

A runner on a straight desert road in hard heat, Chubut, Argentina.

Built for the Heat

Heat is a training variable now, not a forecast. The protocol is dull.