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Waterlog | 
 enlarge | Author: Roger Deakin
Publisher: VINTAGE (RAND)
Category: Book
Buy Used: $10.61
Used (6) from $10.61
Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 86455
Format: Import
Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.1 x 1.1
ISBN: 0099282550
EAN: 9780099282556
ASIN: 0099282550
Publication Date: 2000
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: Brand New. Delivery is usually 5 - 8 working days from order, International is by Royal Mail Airmail
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| Customer Reviews:
 A gem of a book May 18, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book kept me company through a cold late winter and spring, easing me through green waterways and onward toward more and more pure experience. Reading it, I felt as if I were lying somewhere sylvan, watching light flicker through leaves. Deakin's prose is so infused with his appreciation of the natural world that the reader breathes it in and feels more relaxed and, well, at one with the world. His vignettes of the quirky people who practice wild swimming are great mini-essays, too, more gentle and sympathetic than, say, Bill Bryson's. I for one will miss his voice sorely.
 a pleasant exercise May 7, 2003
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Perhaps this will appeal mostly to readers with some history and experience of the UK landscape. Deakin is eccentric in his passion for swimming "wild" and takes us with him on a personal odyssey of exploring the coastal and inland swims around Britain. His writing very effectively describes both the athletic demands of his undertaking and things ecological and to do with the natural history of UK waters, in vibrant detail. The sceptics among us are nevertheless buoyed up by his passion for the subject.
In addition, he has researched the local history of most of the swimming venues and is able to account some interesting tidbit with each swim. Deakin entertained me with his various references to other literary works and to more generally celebrated persons or events in the British psyche. This all combines to create a gently nostalgic account of British water-landscapes, which are in the most part lost to the majority of its inhabitants today. I was left knowing very little about the man, but hungry for more anecdotes of other swims. Quite charming.
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