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Swimming / Roger Deakin.

By: Publication details: London : Vintage Digital, 2017.Description: 114 pages ; 18 cmISBN:
  • 1784872768
  • 9781784872762
Related works:
  • Contained in (work) Deakin, Roger. Waterlog
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.483 23
Available additional physical forms:
  • Also issued online.
Summary: "Is there anything quite so ehilarating 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." -- Back cover
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode Item reserves
Book Melbourne Athenaeum Library Non-Fiction 306.483 DEA Available 071332
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Extracts from Waterlog, © Roger Deakin 1999.

"Is there anything quite so ehilarating 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." -- Back cover

Also issued online.

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