Swimming

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<p>Is there anything quite so exhilarating as swimming in wild water? This is a joyful swimming tour of Britain, a frogs-eye view of the countrys 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.</p><p>Selected from the book<i>Waterlog</i>by Roger Deakin</p><p><b>VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.</b></p><p>A series of short books by the worlds greatest writers on the experiences that make us human</p><p>Also in the Vintage Minis series: <i>Eating</i>by Nigella Lawson <i>Liberty</i>by Virginia Woolf <i>Summer</i>by Laurie Lee <i>Desire</i>by Haruki Murakami</p>

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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.<i>Waterlog</i>, which was first published in 1999, became a word-of-mouth bestseller, and is now an established classic of the nature writing canon.

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