Swimming

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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 Zusammenfassung Is there anything quite so exhilarating as swimming in wild water? This swimming tour of Britain offers 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.

Product details

• Authors: Roger Deakin, Deakin Roger
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 01.06.2017
• Subject: Guides > Sport > Water sport, sailing; Fiction > Poetry, drama; Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interview
• EAN: 9781784872762
• ISBN: 978-1-78487-276-2
• Pages: 128
• Dimensions (packing): 11 x 17.8 x 0.7 cm
• Series: Vintage Minis; VINTAGE CLASSICS; Vintage minis
• Subjects: Cultural Studies, Magic, Virginia Woolf, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Sports, TRAVEL / Europe / Great Britain, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Oceans & Seas, Autobiography, Nigella Lawson, Autobiography: sport, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Watersports, Eating, Liberty, Laurie Lee, British Isles, Sea life and the seashore: general interest, Sea life & the seashore, Oceanography, Swimming & diving, Swimming and diving, biographies and autobiographies, haruki murakami; virginia woolf; nigella lawson; laurie lee; liberty; waterlog; vintage minis; eating; i found you; watersports; autobiography; biographies and autobiographies; magic; night swim; picture of britain; oceanarium; oceanography, i found you, picture of britain, oceanarium, night swim, vintage minis, waterlog