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OUTDOOR SWIMMING books & articles by
jack HUDSON
★★★★★
Amazon Customer
“I absolutely loved this book. From the very first chapter, you’re thrown right into the adventure. From the nostalgia surrounding the River Eden, to the myths and legends of the world’s greatest maelstroms, this was a complete joy to read…”
★★★★★
Amazon Customer
“My brother in law is having a mid-life crisis, transforming himself from a flabby bar room bore into a toned, pumped up wild swimmer daily jumping into Coniston Water in the Lake District (all year round freezing) and swimming the lake with a great lunging breast stroke. This book will inspire him…”
★★★★★
Viktor Machek
“I want to recommend this amazing book. Really enjoyable. Great adventures and tales from wild swimming. Not only for swimmers.”
★★★★
Ellen Taylor
“Exciting descriptions of world-first swims. Great for adventure/nature lovers.”
swim wild is the wild swimming brothers’ story, written by jack and published by Hodder & Stoughton imprint Yellow Kite.
‘Swim Wild’ charts our childhood together and delves into the source of our motivation to attempt swims no one had ever done before.
The book is Jack’s personal account of our adventures to motivate others with similarly unfulfilling jobs, and too much time spent in the blank company of pigeons, to get outdoors and seek more creative lives, with less restrictions.
The story includes a crossing of the Moskstraumen (the last maelstrom we swam across) described in Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea, when the Nautilus reportedly blunders into the ‘ocean’s deadliest whirlpool’ and disappears. Follow us across the world’s strongest maelstrom too (the Saltstraumen) and join our 9-day source-to-sea river swim.
This is a motivational travelogue that will hopefully show you that you don’t need to be ex-military, well-funded or even well-spoken to launch cool expeditions and explore the world. The narrative is simpy written and driven by the furnace of fierce maternal figures, encouraging a more caring, powerful and responsible existence.
Swim Wild includes contributions and illustrations from older brothers, Calum and Robbie.
Both Hardback and Paperback editions of Swim Wild are available now from bookshops around the UK. You can also order a copy from Amazon and other online retailers if you’re elsewhere on our ocean planet.
“I later realised that hard-earned rest is not only redemptive - being a form of expiation for pent-up guilt and laziness - it’s also revelatory, you know? It brings you closer to the truth that limits are nothing but conventions. You can go further than you ever have before, so long as you can conceive of doing so...”