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A review by iuanto
Swimming: Vintage Minis by Roger Deakin
adventurous
slow-paced
4.0
Swimming is a series of extracts from Roger Deakin's near-legendary Waterlog. It's an entertaining enough read, even if Deakin does spend a lot of time waxing lyrical about topics that are, at best, tangentially related to his swims. He gives the impression of an eccentric, upper-middle class English gent, setting off from his moated farmhouse in Suffolk to explore remote corners of the countryside and swim in them while quoting poetry.
Deakin's love of Britain's wild places is beyond question and, although his writing feels a little self-indulgent at times, he never fails to evoke a sense of magic and wonder.
I've heard a great deal about Waterlog, so couldn't resist picking up Swimming when I saw it in my local library. Having read it, I'm still keen to track down a copy of the original, full-length version.
Deakin's love of Britain's wild places is beyond question and, although his writing feels a little self-indulgent at times, he never fails to evoke a sense of magic and wonder.
I've heard a great deal about Waterlog, so couldn't resist picking up Swimming when I saw it in my local library. Having read it, I'm still keen to track down a copy of the original, full-length version.