Waterlog

Sue says about Waterlog: "My first introduction to open water swimming, as Roger Deakin set out to swim around the British Isles via rivers, streams, lochs, lidos, and the sea. It tackles issues of land ownership and trespass, and our relationship to the water that surrounds us."

Waterlog celebrates the magic of water and the beauty of wild Britain.

In 1996 Roger Deakin set out to swim the British Isles. He swam in the sea, in rivers, in streams, tarns, lakes, lochs, ponds, lidos, swimming pools, fens, dykes, moats, aqueducts, waterfalls, flooded quarries and even canals. This funny, wise, delightful book documents his journey. It inspired a movement, creating wild swimmers out of many readers.

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, Deakin discovered just how much of an outsider the native swimmer is to his landlocked, fully-dressed fellow citizens.

Waterlog is a personal journey, a bold assertion of the native swimmer's right to roam, and an unforgettable celebration of the magic of water.

Author: Deakin, Roger
Cultural studies
Published on 7 August 2014 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback / softback | 368 pages
190 x 120 x 24 | 258g