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Waterlog: A Swimmer's Journey Through Britain
by DEAKIN, ROGER
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/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. Good/Good . In Good Dustwrapper. 8vo. - First Edition, first impression - Boards a little rubbed and slightly bumped to spine ends - Edges of text block heavily toned and foxed w/ some moisture marks (now dry) and a stain to the top edge - Price clipped dustwrapper a little marked w/ minor chipping to spine ends, edges and corners - Book ow/ solid, clean and tight - 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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- Green Ink Booksellers
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 637059
- Title
- Waterlog: A Swimmer's Journey Through Britain
- Author
- DEAKIN, ROGER
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- 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 Good Dustwrapper
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