Waterlog

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    Waterlog Author: Format: Paperback / softback First Published: Published By: Vintage Publishing
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    Pages: 368 Language: English ISBN: 9781784700065 Categories: ,

    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

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    I jumped in with both feet and wanted to stay for more. Erudite, funky and passionate, a total delight * Independent on Sunday * Charmingly and elegantly written * Daily Telegraph * A delicious, cleansing, funny, wise and joyful book, so wonderfully full of energy and life. I loved it Highly entertaining...Waterlog is a book about a cold, wet subject written with a warmth and passion it surely deserves, but has rarely had before * Guardian *

    Author Biography

    Roger Deakin (Author) 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.