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Interceptado por guardacostas, a punto de ser engullido por un remolino, el hombre que recorrió las islas británicas a nado
El foso La lluvia tibia caía por el canalón en uno de esos típicos chaparrones de mediados de verano mientras cruzaba a toda prisa el jardín trasero de mi casa de Suffolk para cobijarme en el foso. Empecé a nadar lentamente, recorriendo a braza los casi treinta metros de agua verde y clara, con los ojos al nivel de la superficie. Era magnífico ver la lluvia cayendo sobre el foso desde el punto de vista de una rana.
My Swimming Bookshelf
Swimming and writing are my life, which means I’ve also read a lot of books about both of them. These are some of my favorites about water and swimming, in alphabetical order. Some are instructional/technical, some are memoir or novels, and some explore why we love water. What are your favorite books about swimming? Please share in the comments! I’d love to expand my shelf. Honestly, books and swimsuits are serious shopping weaknesses for me.
The case for a 100-mile national park from Oxford to the Wash
‘The approach to Ely is always dramatic. The city and its cathedral loom at first faintly through the blue haze of the Fens, distinguishable as a whiter shade of pale.
WATERLOG by Roger Deakin Read by Mike Cooper
Narrator Mike Cooper’s enthusiasm and wry British tones capture the luminous wonders of this reissued nature classic of “wild swimming.” Roger Deakin swims across Britain in every sort of body of water—freezing mountain lochs, moats, canals, spas, oceans, lakes, clean and dirty rivers. He swims with salmon and eels, naked and in a wet suit, in midsummer and midwinter.
Green Apple Books co-owner immersed himself in British book until it was published in U.S.
Pete Mulvihill and Bonnie Tsui in Tomales Bay. Photo: Craig Popelars It’s 5,300 miles from San Francisco’s South End Rowing Club to Suffolk, England.
Waterlog | Tin House
“Like swimming through Alice’s Wonderland.” —Lynne Cox A swimming journey would give me access to that part of our world which, like darkness, mist, woods or high mountains, still retains most mystery. It would afford me a different perspective on the rest of land-locked humanity. A masterpiece of nature writing, Roger Deakin’s Waterlog is a fascinating and inspiring journey into the aquatic world that surrounds us.
6 best books and films that will inspire you to try wild swimming
Immersing yourself in the blue does wonders to your mental a physical wellbeing. Whether you're an avid swimmer or just dipping your toes, these books and films will inspire you to take the plunge. 1. Swim by Annette Lees A beautifully written social history of swimming in New Zealand, which also describes the author’s quest to swim every day for a year and features first-person accounts from other Kiwi outdoor swimmers. (Potton & Burton) 2.
Reading The New Nature Writing Canon
This is the fourth in a series of pieces we’ll be running all month on Helen Macdonald’s Vesper Flights, the InsideHook Book Club pick for September. You sign up for our Book Club email to receive important updates, announcements and notifications here. For as long as people have been writing, they’ve been writing about the world around them.
East to Eden - Emergence Magazine
It took me years to find it, but tucked away in a paragraph of “East to Eden” was a sentence that would grow through my own life in ways which are still surprising me now, more than a dozen years on. It comes after Roger has enjoyed a lunch of kymys (fermented mare’s milk), red wine, mushrooms, and grilled lamb with a family of Kazakh woods-people, up among the wild apple forests of the lower Tien Shan. Once the meal is ended, Roger steps outside.
East to Eden - Emergence Magazine
Writer Roger Deakin was a nature writer, broadcaster, and filmmaker who spent most of his life in Suffolk, in a ruined farmhouse that he restored. He is the author of Waterlog: A Swimmer’s Journey Through Britain, Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees, and Notes from Walnut Tree Farm, compiled posthumously from his diaries. He died in August 2006.
Rosamund Young Recommends the Best Books About the Countryside | Waterstones.com Blog | Waterstones
A encouragement to stand and stare, our Non-Fiction Book of the Month for November, The Secret Life of Cows , considers the world with a cow’s eye view. Its author, Rosamund Young understands better than most the need to protect and preserve our valuable natural environment. Here, in an exclusive article for Waterstones, she recommends some favourite countryside reads for your Christmas list this year.
Fragments | Roger Deakin | Granta Magazine
In 1969 Roger Deakin bought a ruined farmhouse in Mellis, a small village in north Suffolk. Walnut Tree Farm sat on the edge of Mellis Common, a medieval grazing pasture that centuries of farming had made rich with wild flowers, including rare green-winged orchids and sulphur clover.
Issue 36 | Five Dials
Robert Macfarlane – On the Peregrine Rachel Lichtenstein – Approaching London via Estuary W.G. Sebald – From the archive Stanley Donwood – New artwork Plus: ‘Relics’ from Autumn Richardson and Richard Skelton, photography by David Quentin, and Jay Griffiths
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