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; and, 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.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Roger Deakin, Deakin Roger
• Edition: Vintage UK
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Poche format A
• Sortie: 01.06.2017
• EAN: 9781784872762
• ISBN: 978-1-78487-276-2
• Pages: 128
• Dimensions: 110 mm x 178 mm x 7 mm
• Thèmes: Vintage Minis; Vintage Classics; Vintage Minis
• Catégories: Littérature > Littérature (récits) > Essais, chroniques, critiques littéraires, entretiens; Littérature > Poésie, théâtre; Livres de conseils > Sport > Sports aquatiques, voile; Cultural Studies, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Sports, TRAVEL / Europe / Great Britain, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Oceans & Seas, Autobiography: sport, United Kingdom, Great Britain, British Isles, Sea life and the seashore: general interest, Sea life & the seashore, Swimming & diving, Swimming and diving