Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees - Roger Deakin

Waterlog - Roger Deakin

It was this feeling of affinity, and the frustration of feeling sentenced to swim the same, short lengths forever (albeit in his own private Suffolk moat), that led Roger Deakin on his odyssey through Britain's water. This is a travelogue, yes, but a travelogue of water - a waterlog, as he calls it, and the book could certainly be described as waterlogged since it contains nothing else. He freely admits to being inspired by John Cheever's story "The Swimmer", the hero of which decides to swim home from a party through his neighbours' back-garden pools (eight miles of them, to be precise), but Deakin takes the idea further than the sparkling, ...

Waterlog - Roger Deakin

It was this feeling of affinity, and the frustration of feeling sentenced to swim the same, short lengths forever (albeit in his own private Suffolk moat), that led Roger Deakin on his odyssey through Britain's water. This is a travelogue, yes, but a travelogue of water - a waterlog, as he calls it, and the book could certainly be described as waterlogged since it contains nothing else. He freely admits to being inspired by John Cheever's story "The Swimmer", the hero of which decides to swim home from a party through his neighbours' back-garden pools (eight miles of them, to be precise), but Deakin takes the idea further than the sparkling, ...