Waterlog

Waterlog celebrates the magic of water and the beauty of wild Britain.

In 1996 Roger Deakin set out to swim the British Isles. He swam in the sea, in rivers, in streams, tarns, lakes, lochs, ponds, lidos, swimming pools, fens, dykes, moats, aqueducts, waterfalls, flooded quarries and even canals. This funny, wise, delightful book documents his journey. It inspired a movement, creating wild swimmers out of many readers.

Detained by water bailiffs in Winchester, intercepted in the Fowey estuary by coastguards, mistaken for a suicide on Camber sands, confronting the Corryvreckan whirlpool in the Hebrides, Deakin discovered just how much of an outsider the native swimmer is to his landlocked, fully-dressed fellow citizens.

Waterlog is a personal journey, a bold assertion of the native swimmer's right to roam, and an unforgettable celebration of the magic of water.

INTRODUCED BY OLIVIA LAING

'A delicious, cleansing, funny, wise and joyful book, so wonderfully full of energy and life' Jane Gardam'

'Roger Deakin is the perfect companion for an invigorating armchair swim' Daily Telegraph

Info autore

Roger Deakin

Riassunto

Encompassing cultural history, autobiography, travel writing and natural history, Waterlog is a personal journey, a bold assertion of the native swimmer's right to roam, and an unforgettable celebration of the magic of water.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Roger Deakin, Deakin Roger
• Con la collaborazione di: Olivia Laing (Introduzione), Laing Olivia (Introduzione)
• Editore: Vintage UK
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 07.08.2014
• EAN: 9781784700065
• ISBN: 978-1-78470-006-5
• Pagine: 352
• Dimensioni: 129 mm x 198 mm x 22 mm
• Categorie: Viaggi > Reportage di viaggio, racconti di viaggio; Cultural Studies, TRAVEL / Europe / Great Britain, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Oceans & Seas, Applied ecology, United Kingdom, Great Britain, British Isles, swimming, Sea life and the seashore: general interest, Sea life & the seashore, Rivers and lakes, Environmentalist thought and ideology, Swimming & diving, SPORTS & RECREATION / Water Sports / Swimming & Diving, Swimming and diving