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Swimming

Swimming

Vintage Minis

by Roger Deakin
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/06/2017
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Vintage Minis bring you the world’s greatest writers on the experiences that make us human from birth to death and everything in between

Is there anything quite so exhilarating as swimming in wild water? This is Roger Deakin’s swimming tour of Britain, a frog’s-eye view of the country’s best bathing holes the rivers, rock pools, lakes, ponds lochs and sea that define this watery island. Charming, funny, inspiring, an assertion of the native swimmer's right to roam, a celebration of the magic of water this book will indeed make you want to strip off and leap in.  

Selected from the book Waterlog by Roger Deakin

VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.

Also in the Vintage Minis series:

Eating by Nigella Lawson
Liberty by Virginia Woolf
Summer by Laurie Lee
Desire by Haruki Murakami

ISBN:
9781784872762
9781784872762
Category:
Swimming & diving
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-06-2017
Language:
English
Publisher:
Penguin Random House
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
128
Dimensions (mm):
176x109x9mm
Weight:
0.08kg
Roger Deakin

Roger Deakin, who died in 2006, was a writer, filmmaker and environmentalist of international renown. He was a founder member of Friends of the Earth, and co-founded Common Ground.

He lived for thirty-eight years in a moated farmhouse in Suffolk. Waterlog, which was first published in 1999, became a word-of-mouth bestseller, and is now an established classic of the nature writing canon.

A filmmaker and writer with a particular interest in nature and the environment, Roger Deakin was the author of Wildwood and the highly acclaimed Waterlog. He lived in Suffolk, and died there in August 2006, aged 63.

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Sub-aqua swimming Sociology: sport & leisure Cultural studies Travel & holiday Sports & outdoor recreation Autobiography: sport Swimming & diving Sea life & the seashore Social & cultural anthropology The Earth: natural history general Biography: sport
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