Swimming
  • Published: 29 May 2017
  • ISBN: 9781784872762
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 128
  • RRP: $16.99

Swimming

Vintage Minis

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Vintage Minis bring you the world’s greatest writers on the experiences that make us human – from birth to death and everything in between

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
  • Published: 29 May 2017
  • ISBN: 9781784872762
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 128
  • RRP: $16.99
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Other books in the series
Psychedelics
Aldous Huxley
Motherhood
Helen Simpson
Summer
Laurie Lee
Work
Joseph Heller
Jealousy
Marcel Proust
Fatherhood
Karl Ove Knausgaard
Death
Julian Barnes
Depression
William Styron
Calm
Tim Parks
Babies
Anne Enright
Sisters
Louisa May Alcott
Eating
Nigella Lawson
Desire
Haruki Murakami
Drinking
John Cheever
Language
Xiaolu Guo
Liberty
Virginia Woolf
Home
Salman Rushdie
Race
Toni Morrison
Love
Jeanette Winterson
Swimming
Roger Deakin
Freedom
Margaret Atwood
Marriage
Jane Austen
Friendship
Rose Tremain
Austerity
Yanis Varoufakis
War
Sebastian Faulks
Dreams
Sigmund Freud
Rave
Irvine Welsh
Money
Yuval Noah Harari
Injustice
Richard Wright
Ghosts
M. R. James

About the author

Roger Deakin

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.

A filmmaker and writer with a particular interest in nature and the environment, Roger Deakin was the author of Wildwood and the highly acclaimed Waterlog. He lived in Suffolk, and died there in August 2006, aged 63.

Also by Roger Deakin

Notes from Walnut Tree Farm
Wildwood
Waterlog
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Praise for Swimming

Erudite, funky and passionate, a total delight

Independent on Sunday

Imagine our joy when Vintage announced that it is publishing a collection of easily digestible books from the world’s most celebrated writers on the experiences that make us human… They look good and read well. That’s win/win in our book.

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