Waterlog: A Swimmer's Journey Through Britain
by DEAKIN, ROGER
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0701166525
- ISBN 13
- 9780701166526
- Seller
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Hay on Wye, Powys, United Kingdom
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About This Item
1999. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good . In Very Good Dustwrapper. 8vo. - First Edition, first impression w/ signed dedication by Deakin, dated June 1999, to the second contents page verso (as was his wont). Spine ends slightly bumped and edges of text block a little toned and marked. Dustwrapper lightly faded and marked - Otherwise a beautiful bright copy in untorn dustwrapper - Comes with a signed first edition, first impression of Patrick Barkham's biography of Deakins, 'The Swimmer'. 357 pages
Synopsis
In 1996 Roger Deakin, the late, great nature writer, set out to swim through the British Isles. 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 suicide 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. This is a personal journey, a bold assertion of the native swimmer’s right to roam, and an unforgettable celebration of the magic of water.
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- Bookseller
- Green Ink Booksellers (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 636686
- Title
- Waterlog: A Swimmer's Journey Through Britain
- Author
- DEAKIN, ROGER
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0701166525
- ISBN 13
- 9780701166526
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1999
- Size
- In Very Good Dustwrapper
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