# Swimming

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- Authors: [Roger Deakin](https://www.bookquiver.com/roger-deakin)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2017-06-08

## Description

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

## Editions

### Swimming

- Publisher: vintage_classics
- ISBN: 978-17-8487-276-2
- Pages: 128
- Published: 2017-06-08
- Language: en_GB