About this title: Roger Deakin set out in 1996 to swim through the British Isles. The result a uniquely personal view of an island race and a people with a deep affinity for water. From the sea, from rock pools, from rivers and streams, tarns, lakes, lochs, ponds, lidos, swimming pools and spas, from fens, dykes, moats, aqueducts, waterfalls, flooded quarries, even canals, Deakin gains a fascinating perspective on modern Britain. Detained by water bailiffs in Winchester, intercepted in the Fowey estuary by coastguards, mistaken for a suicude on Camber sands, confronting the Corryvreckan whirlpool in the ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: VINTAGE Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780099282556ISBN:0099282550
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 352 pages. (368 pages) roger deakin set out in 1996 to swim through the british isles. encompassing cultural history, autobiography, travel writing and natural history, this title is a personal journey, a bold assertion of the native swimmer's right to roam, and a celebration of the magic of water. illustrations (Paperback) read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780099282556ISBN:0099282550
Description: New. Roger Deakin set out in 1996 to swim through the British Isles. Encompassing cultural history, autobiography, travel writing and natural history, this title is a personal journey, a bold assertion of the native swimmer's right to roam, and a celebrati... read more
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780099282556ISBN:0099282550
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Edition: NEW ED
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group), UK
ISBN-13:9780099282556ISBN:0099282550
Description: New. Please note that deliveries to addresses in the UK and Europe will be in 4-14 business days. Other countries should refer to Alibris standard times. Inspired by John Cheever's classic short story, The Swimmer, Roger Deakin set out from his moat in Suffolk to swim through the British Isles. The result of his journey is a maverick work of observation and imagination. ISBN10: 0099282550. read more
Edition: NEW ED
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group), UK
ISBN-13:9780099282556ISBN:0099282550
Description: New. PLEASE NOTE that we do not offer expedited shipping. Orders placed with the priority shipping option will automatically be canceled. Inspired by John Cheever's classic short story, The Swimmer, Roger Deakin set out from his moat in Suffolk to swim through the British Isles. The result of his journey is a maverick work of observation and imagination. ISBN10: 0099282550. read more
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"An amazing journey through the wild and hidden waterways of Britain, by a man completely at one with the natural world. Almost prose-poem, a paean to the water goddess and to the wonders of wild swimming"
"Author heads off on a leisurely and whimsical tour of natural swimming spots in Britain, plunging into rivers and ponds and lakes and, at one point, a stream that disappears into the ground.
On the one hand exhilarating, and on the other hand strangely saddening as Deakin local vignettes of a vanishing way of pre-industrial pollution life, the book is just slightly too long to wade through, ho ho, in one go, but nevertheless a great book to...dip...into."
"Simple, eloquent, welcoming, without that trying-terribly-hard styel of writing that infests other nature writings. Appropriately wandering. Enjoyed the irritable outbursts, the hilarious bits about obstacles to the natural business of swimming in natural water. I'm grabbing my bathers and racing down to the Buscot Lock Pool (misspelt as Buscott here, tsk) on the very first hot day we get, which might be next July...."
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