The SwimmerThe definitive biography of Roger Deakin, beloved author of the cult classic Waterlog. Roger Deakin is best known for his modern classic of nature writing, Waterlog, which frog kicked the wild swimming movement into existence with wit, politics, and poetry. But he was not simply a dazzling writer and an eccentric Englishman. He took his counterculture to the countryside in the 1970s and rebuilt a 16th century farmhouse from its oak beams up. He turned