Swim: A year of swimming outdoors in New Zealand
a year of swimming outdoors in new zealand
$31.99
- Paperback
254 pages
- Release Date
7 November 2018
Summary
This is a book about New Zealanders and their deep connection to swimming in the outdoors. Every neighbourhood has its swimming hole up the river, its local beach, or a back road to the lake. A love of swimming is one of the things that defines Kiwis, and all over the country the start of summer is marked by most of us heading for the water.
Swim is the result of Annette Lees’ personal quest to swim every day of a full year in the natural waterways of New Zealand. From Northl…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780947503956 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0947503951 |
| Author: | Annette Lees |
| Publisher: | Potton & Burton |
| Imprint: | Potton & Burton |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 254 |
| Release Date: | 7 November 2018 |
| Weight: | 900g |
| Dimensions: | 230mm x 170mm |
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About The Author
Annette Lees
Annette Lees is a wild swimming enthusiast from childhood. With a university degree in ecology and landscape conservation, she has had a career in tropical forest and reef conservation, travelling and working in South America, Africa and the South Pacific. Annette is now a strategy consultant for her business Alternative Endings. She frequently works on water-quality issues alongside farmers, communities, iwi, conservationists and government. Annette is the author of The Deep Sky Waits on the Outskirts of Town (Reed 1996), and lives in the Waitakere River valley with her family, with easy access to streams, lakes, wetlands and the Tasman Sea. Annette goes swimming a lot.
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