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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

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Swimming: Vintage Minis

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      Publisher: Vintage Publishing
      Publication Date: 08/06/2017
      ISBN13: 9781784872762, 978-1784872762
      ISBN10: 1784872768
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      Biography Autobiography: sport Politics, Philosophy & Society Cultural studies Sport Underwater (sub-aqua) swimming

      Description

      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

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