Turning is a memoir of a year spent in Berlin, with a personal challenge to swim in 52 of Berlin’s lakes in that time. Turning, A Swimming Memoir, by Jessica J. In Australia, find Swimming With Seals on Amazon here. Published in the UK by Head of Zeus in 2017īuy Swimming With Seals from Book Depository here with free worldwide shipping. She leavens this with so many fascinating stories of life in Orkney, its history and people, and her own life changes. Her writing is vivid, her swims are intense, challenging. The writer is a novelist and historian, living through the breakup of her marriage. Victoria Whitworth details a year of daily swimming in the Orkneys, the islands north of Scotland. The poetic imagery and descriptions made me feel that I too could swim in cold, cold water. This is the book which blew my socks off. Swimming with Seals, by Victoria Whitworth This is my bedside table book list, I’m reading through them all in between my own dips. These are mainly memoirs of swimming to survive trauma, but there’s also more bucolic descriptive books plus a warm and entertaining novel. If you are looking for inspiration, you’ll find plenty here.
Here follows a list of books about swimming.
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