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| Author: Daniel Start
Publisher: Punk Publishing Ltd
Category: Book
List Price: £14.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 1417
Media: Paperback
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 6.6 x 0.9
ISBN: 0955203678
EAN: 9780955203671
ASIN: 0955203678
Publication Date: April 21, 2008
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Gorgeous imagery - and an excellent historical and literary tour July 7, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I adore this book: it's filled with vivid, candid images that make me want to jump on a rope swing again and go plunging into a pool. I also really like the focus on history, particularly stories of the characters from literature, folklore and the arts who used to bathe and dip. Wordsworth, Shelley, Constable, Rupert Brooke, Henry Williamson, etc. There are also extracts of poetry too in sidebars. There's excellent coverage and information including how long it will take to walk to the place and how difficult the path is - seems to be a very good mix between inspiration and detail. Clever ideas for river camping and canoeing too, and a wildlife spotting annex. Makes a great present for anyone who likes the great outdoors.
Beautifully written and practical too!! June 9, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I really love this book! It's a real joy to read and the photographs are wonderful. It's also a very practical guide and I found it really easy to visit one of the beautiful 'hidden dips' this weekend. It's going to be my essential guide to summer! I'd recommend it to everyone.
A hell of a big splash June 6, 2008
28 out of 29 found this review helpful
This is the book to make poltroons like me brace up and take the plunge. On so many occasions, hot and sweaty on a walk, I have come to a pool, a river or a waterfall and thought, 'Oh, I'd love to fall in there - but I can't.' And why can't I? Because it's too cold, because I don't dare, because I might not be allowed, because I haven't got a towel, because, because ...
Pathetic, man! Here is the wonderful antidote to all that cowardice. 150 brilliant places where it's not only OK to swim or plunge or flop out on your back - it's the nicest, most natural thing on earth, if you judge by the ecstatic expressions on the (mostly young, mostly shapely) people who cavort in or stand invitingly on the brink of the cool pools in Daniel Start's quite irresistibly seductive photos. Why aren't there any snaps of saggy greybeards like me? Because, let's face it, we don't scrub up so well. But Daniel's message is that there's room and tolerance for all of us in the clear trout-filled River Nadder at Teffont Evias in Wiltshire, under the mountain oaks of the Wolf's Leap in deepest Wales, or among the Faerie Pools in the dramatic shadow of the Cuillins on the Isle of Skye.
Great Scott! I can hardly wait. This is a wonderful, youthful, inspiring book. I've let my Health Club subscription lapse because I couldn't take the urine and chlorine and locker-room macho any more. But now I shall be a swimmer into cleanness leaping. Here I gooooooooooooo ... !
Get out of the city... May 12, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Once you get this book, you'll wonder why nobody wrote it before now.
The book itself conveys the magic of each place with great photographs, but it is also a very practical, well laid out guide - with good directions and ideas of other things to do locally.
In many of the recommended spots there are other beautiful places to swim nearby that you discover when you get there. There is just enough information in the book for you to find a great spot from which you can explore for yourself.
Keep it on your packing list for any weekend away... It'll be the most exhilarating thing you do all summer.
A great book May 10, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Daniel's book is a 'must have' for seasoned wild swimmers who will be introduced to scores of new magical swimming holes all over the UK. It also offers an attractive package to newcomers who will find in it all they need to know before taking the plunge. Great, well researched, book.
Congratulations to Daniel
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