<p>Is there anything quite so exhilarating as swimming in wild water? This is a joyful swimming tour of Britain, a frog¿s-eye view of the country¿s best bathing holes ¿ the rivers, rock pools, lakes, ponds, lochs and sea that define a watery island. Charming, funny, inspiring, an assertion of the native swimmer''s right to roam, a celebration of the magic of water ¿ this book will indeed make you want to strip off and leap in.<br><br>Selected from the book <i>Waterlog</i> by Roger Deakin<br><br><b>VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.</b><br><br>A series of short books by the world¿s greatest writers on the experiences that make us human<br><br>Also in the Vintage Minis series:<br><i>Eating </i>by Nigella Lawson<br><i>Liberty </i>by Virginia Woolf<br><i>Summer </i>by Laurie Lee<br><i>Desire </i>by Haruki Murakami</p>