Swimming Against the Stream: Reclaiming Our Lakes and Rivers for People to Enjoy
Language: English
Published by Jon Carpenter, 2005
- Softcover
- New
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- Title
- Swimming Against the Stream: Reclaiming Our Lakes and Rivers for People to Enjoy
- Author
- Perraton, Jean
- Publisher
- Jon Carpenter
- Publication year
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0954972708
- ISBN 13
- 9780954972707
She tests the dangers of swimming, real but often exaggerated, and maps the legal limits used by timid authorities to justify their bans. Swimming Against the Stream argues for more tolerance towards a simple, harmless pleasure and provides practical suggestions to help recover a disappearing freedom.
The book traces the history of swimming from a twelfth-century lady in the abbots fishpond to a twenty-first century broadcaster splooshing in the water. Their enthusiasms form an unexpected anthology of inland swimming set against the dry facts of the European Bathing Water Directive, the law on access to water, and the dangers of accidents and disease. Together, the wet and dry chapters balance emotional response against a cool appraisal of risk and reality, giving double strength to the case for changed attitudes and new policies.
The result is a book that is both a delight and a practical compendium for anyone concerned with policy towards our heritage of lakes and rivers. It concludes with practical measures that could be taken now to enable more people to enjoy this pleasurable and environmentally benign activity.
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