Product Description

New from the publishers of the Cool Camping series, Wild Swimming is the original handbook to the freshwater swimming holes of Britain. Combining inspirational photography, engaging writing and practical information this authoritative and beautiful book will guide you to 230 magical river, lake and waterfall locations throughout Britain - perfect for a swim, paddle or waterside picnic.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #87 in Books
• Published on: 2008-04-21
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

National Trust Magazine, Summer 2008
"A book of wonderful things to do in Britain's rivers, lakes and waterfalls, including swimming with otters, discovering underground caves and even searching for gold"

Sunday Times Magazine, 4th May 2008
"The first guidebook to Britain's freshwater swimming holes"

The Daily Telegraph, 16th June 2008
"Excellent...This is an essential guide for anyone planning a dreamy summer of camping, picnics and swimming."

Customer Reviews

Beautifully written and practical too!!
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
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...
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.