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Swimming

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9781784872762

  • Length: 128  Pages

  • Dimensions: 178mm x 7mm x 110mm

  • Weight: 73g

  • RRP: £3.50

Swimming

Is there anything quite so exhilarating as swimming in wild water? This is a joyful 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 a 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.

A series of short books by the world’s greatest writers on the experiences that make us human

Also in the Vintage Minis series:
Eating by Nigella Lawson
Liberty by Virginia Woolf
Summer by Laurie Lee
Desire by Haruki Murakami

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9781784872762

  • Length: 128  Pages

  • Dimensions: 178mm x 7mm x 110mm

  • Weight: 73g

  • RRP: £3.50

Reviews

  • "Erudite, funky and passionate, a total delight"

    Independent on Sunday

  • "Imagine our joy when Vintage announced that it is publishing a collection of easily digestible books from the world’s most celebrated writers on the experiences that make us human… They look good and read well. That’s win/win in our book."

    Stylist

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About the Author

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.

Roger Deakin

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