Wild Swimming: 150 Hidden Dips in the Rivers, Lakes and Waterfalls of Britain

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Customer reviews

review by: Sabrina Lee date: 2008-06-09 rating:
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.

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review by: date: 2008-06-06 rating:
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 ... !

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review by: date: 2008-05-12 rating:
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.

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review by: Maria G date: 2008-05-05 rating:
Get planning for Summer 2008

Hi, I am the girl on the tree on page 89! :)

I just want to say that the day my friends and I went swimming in the River Thames was the best day ever in the summer. As you can see from the photograph, the light and the water were just perfect.

Last year it was an experiment, this year my friends and I are already planning a few swimming trips and now we have this book to guide us to get to some of these amazing places photographed in the book.

Thanks Dan!


review by: date: 2008-05-01 rating:
Super, Splashing, Great!
This book really stands out for me because of the way it manages to combine just the right weight of solid information with the auther's innate exuberance and love for the subject-matter. I happened to be out exploring one of the locations featured with my two young children when Daniel Start arrived with his camera. I can report that the author/photographer really interracted with the water, the space and the people enjoying both. He did so with an openness, lack of inhibition and almost naive enthusiasm that have translated remarkably well to the printed page.

Similar to the text, the photography really conveys a sense of fun and love of open spaces and water, with a technical and compositional precision that is easily overlooked. The result is that this book is an enjoyable read, a visual treat and a very useable guide to open-water swimming.

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