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Turning: A Swimming Memoir by Jessica J. Lee
$28.00 NZD
Category: Swimming
'The water slips over me like cool silk. The intimacy of touch uninhibited, rising around my legs, over my waist, my breasts, up to my collarbone. When I throw back my head and relax, the lake runs into my ears. The sound of it is a muffled roar, the vibration of the body amplified by water, every sound ...Show more
Alex: The Quartet by Tessa Duder
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
The award-winning Alex books, which first appeared in the 1980s, are to be reprinted in one omnibus edition in October 2019. Tessa Duder's series covers Alex Archer's life from early in 1959, vying for selection for the Rome Olympics, her struggles during the winter of 1960, her experiences in Rome in A ...Show more
Swim: A Year of Swimming Outdoors in New Zealand by Annette Lees
$40.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
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 mark ...Show more
Splash ! 10 000 Years of Swimming by Howard Means
$33.00 NZD
Category: Swimming
A global history of swimming, from humankind's first dip in what is now the driest spot on earth to the 2020 Olympics.
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