The Swimmer
Book formats
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Hardcover 3 619руб.
Book short specifications
- Author
- Patrick Barkham
- Pages
- 280
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton
- Language
- english
- Release date
- February 9, 2023
- ISBN
- 978-0-241-47147-0
- GTIN
- 9780241471470
- Weight, g
- 500
- Publisher's website
- penguin.co.uk
About
The definitive biography of beloved author, Roger Deakin
Roger Deakin is best known for his modern classic of nature writing, Waterlog, which frog-kicked the wild swimming movement into existence with wit, politics and poetry.
But he was not simply a dazzling writer and eccentric Englishman. He took his counterculture to the countryside in the 1970s and rebuilt a 16th century farmhouse from its oak beams up. He turned to self-sufficiency, teaching and environmentalism. He became a music impresario and made films, radio programmes and hundreds of friends from all classes — aristocrats, poachers, actors, builders, musicians, tearaways, from city and from town. He was a polymath, an enthusiast, an adventurer, a romantic and rebel.
Patrick Barkham's biography follows Roger Deakin's tree of life, from roots to fruits, revealing the inner life of an extraordinary man.