Table of Contents
Introduction Bonnie Tsui xi
1 The Moat 3
2 I-SPY at the Seaside 9
3 Lords of the Fly 21
4 A People's River 45
5 Swimming with Eels 62
6 At Swim-Two-Birds 82
7 Tiderips and Moonbeams 87
8 Borrow & Thoreau 100
9 The Lost Pools of the Malverns 114
10 Tribal Swimming 128
11 Salmon-Runs 147
12 The Red River 156
13 Crossing the Fowey 176
14 The Blandford Bomber 198
15 A Small World 210
16 Extinctions 215
17 The Wash 229
18 Natando Virtus 240
19 An Encounter with Naiads 244
20 Swimming with Angels 252
21 A Descent into Hell Gill 265
22 Hot & Cold 271
23 Orwell's Whirlpool 281
24 A Castle in the Air 296
25 The Oxbow 299
26 Swallow Dives 306
27 The Jaywick Papers 309
28 Great Expectations 316
29 Channel Swimming 324
30 Water Levels 336
31 A Mill-Race 343
32 Penguin Pools 348
33 Steaming 359
34 The Walberswick Shiverers 375
35 On Ice 378
36 To the Sea 380
Afterword Robert Macfarlane 391
Acknowledgments 399
Index of Places 402