WATERLOG Roger Deakin - A Swimmer's Journey Through Britain

WATERLOG: author Roger Deakin's account of his swimming through the British Isles. Waterlog is part travel book, part autobiography, part natural history and part cultural history.

USED TRAVEL BOOK IN GOOD CONDITION: clean with light reading wear to cover and edges; pages are clean and tanning lightly with age; minor corner wear; light aging to top edge of book; excellent binding with no spine creases. See photos for cover blurb, condition and sample pages. The book in the photos is the actual book you will receive - we never use stock pictures - enjoy!

PUBLISHER'S BLURB: Roger Deakin set out in 1996 to swim through the British Isles. The result a uniquely personal view of an island race and a people with a deep affinity for water. From the sea, from rock pools, from rivers and streams, tarns, lakes, lochs, ponds, lidos, swimming pools and spas, from fens, dykes, moats, aqueducts, waterfalls, flooded quarries, even canals, Deakin gains a fascinating perspective on modern Britain. Detained by water bailiffs in Winchester, intercepted in the Fowey estuary by coastguards, mistaken for a suicude on Camber sands, confronting the Corryvreckan whirlpool in the Hebrides, he discovers just how much of an outsider the native swimmer is to his landlocked, fully-dressed fellow citizens. 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.

Book Details

Code: SKU1187

Condition: See notes and photos below

Binding: Paperback

Pages: 340

Published: 2000 by Vintage,, UK

ISBN: 0099282550

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