East London Swimmers
Title | East London Swimmers PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 80 |
Release | 2014-05-16 |
Genre | Hackney (London, England) |
ISBN | 9780957699823 |
Urban Swimmers is the second in the series of East London Photo Stories by Hoxton Mini Press. Each book in the series is about Hackney and its surroundings - one of the capital's most rich and diverse areas - and features the work of both emerging and established photographers. Madeleine Waller is a local East London Photographer whose work has been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery. The book, which includes quotes taken from interviews with the swimmers, gives a touching and humorous insight into the world of those who escape the city to swim in conditions.
Wild Swimming Walks
Title | Wild Swimming Walks PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret Dickinson |
Publisher | Wild Things Publishing |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 2015-05-04 |
Genre | Coasts |
ISBN | 9781910636015 |
The famous swimming Ladies of Hampstead ponds bring us their favourite walks with a dip in London and south east England, all accessible by train. Featuring secret lakes, river meadows and sandy seaside beaches, this is the perfect way to escape the city and leave the car at home this summer.
East London Photo Stories
Title | East London Photo Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Rachel Segal Hamilton |
Publisher | |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | East End (London, England) |
ISBN | 9781910566428 |
To mark their fifth anniversary Hoxton Mini Press are publishing a compilation book that will feature photography from the bestselling book series 'East London Photo Stories.' Appearing alongside new text and a map of East London showing where the projects were taken, each chapter of selected images captures a unique aspect of the area's colourful character: from Hackney's eccentric inhabitants and tranquil waterways to famous flower markets, 1980s Dalston and wild nightlife in Shoreditch. Featuring work by Dougie Wallace, Zed Nelson, Jenny Lewis, David Campany & Polly Braden, David George and many more.
Swimming Home
Title | Swimming Home PDF eBook |
Author | Mary-Rose MacColl |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 434 |
Release | 2017-06-20 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1101993502 |
From the author of the international bestseller In Falling Snow. In 1925, a young woman swimmer will defy the odds to swim the English Channel—a chance to make history. London 1925: Fifteen-year-old Catherine Quick longs to feel once more the warm waters of her home, to strike out into the ocean off the Torres Strait Islands in Australia and swim, as she’s done since she was a child. But now, orphaned and living with her aunt Louisa in London, Catherine feels that everything she values has been stripped away from her. Louisa, a London surgeon who fought boldly for equality for women, holds strict views on the behavior of her young niece. She wants Catherine to pursue an education, just as she herself did. Catherine is rebellious, and Louisa finds it difficult to block painful memories from her past. It takes the enigmatic American banker Manfred Lear Black to convince Louisa to bring Catherine to New York where Catherine can train to become the first woman to swim the English Channel. And finally, Louisa begins to listen to what her own heart tells her.
First to the Wall
Title | First to the Wall PDF eBook |
Author | Kelly Gonsalves |
Publisher | |
Pages | 386 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780967417103 |
The Hackney Canal
Title | The Hackney Canal PDF eBook |
Author | Freya Najade |
Publisher | |
Pages | 96 |
Release | 2016-09-15 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781910566114 |
Freya Najade captures the unexpected beauty and abstraction along the waterways that course through East London. Focussing mainly on detail and colour but drawing on a tradition of landscape photography her images remind us of the hidden poetry in the city and the richness of the waters that sometimes run darkly through the heart of the capital.
Sunday Football
Title | Sunday Football PDF eBook |
Author | Chris Baker |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2016-01-09 |
Genre | Soccer |
ISBN | 9781910566107 |
Every Sunday a small army of amateur footballers descend on Hackney Marshes. Known as the 'spiritual home of amateur football', the marshes consist of some 80 pitches where more than 50 matches are played each week from September until April. Photographer Chris Baker, an amateur footballer himself, has spent the past three seasons documenting this Sunday ritual.