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Places We Swim California

A Guide to the Best Rivers, Lakes, Waterfalls, Beaches, Gorges, and Hot Springs
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Places We Swim California is a travel guide that explores California's wilderness through swimming, documenting the state's best beaches, hot springs, rivers, lakes, waterfalls, and canyons. This beautiful book is divided into six distinct regions: Northern California, Sierra Nevada, Gold Country, Central California, Southern California, and... Read More
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A book that's both beautiful and functional, featuring California's very best swimming locations.

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Places We Swim California is a travel guide that explores California's wilderness through swimming, documenting the state's best beaches, hot springs, rivers, lakes, waterfalls, and canyons.

This beautiful book is divided into six distinct regions: Northern California, Sierra Nevada, Gold Country, Central California, Southern California, and The Bay Area. It covers more than 60 swimming locations, from river beaches in Mendocino to mountain lakes in Yosemite Valley, hot springs near Bishop, and beaches on the south coast in San Diego. There's also a selection of road trip itineraries that combine favourite swimming spots with other pit stops along the way.

California possesses an incredible range of climates and is home to some of America’s most iconic landscapes. Places We Swim California leans into the relationship between swimming, hiking, road trips, and other attractions – nostalgic diners, local breweries and coffee shops, smokey BBQ joints, and picturesque campsites. In many ways, swimming is really the perfect way to discover these places and landscapes.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781741178296

Publisher: Hardie Grant Explore

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 03 April 2024

Country: Australia

Imprint: Hardie Grant Explore

Illustration: Full-colour Photography

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 28.0mm

Width: 190.0mm

Height: 248.0mm

Weight: 976g

Pages: 264

About the Author

Caroline ClementsΒ is an Australian writer and editor. She has produced cookbooks and travel guides with AustralianΒ publication Broadsheet, and has worked with global media brands such as The Guardian, The New York Times, Australian Traveller, Vogue and RUSSH.Β Dillon Seitchik-ReardonΒ is originally from New Mexico, USA, and lived and worked in Yosemite for many years. An environmental scientist and photographer, Dillon has co-written gardening books for the Little Veggie Patch Co. which have been translated into three languages. Together, Caroline and Dillon have written and photographed two Australian best-selling books,Β Places We SwimΒ (2018)Β and Places We Swim SydneyΒ (2020). Places We Swim California (2023)Β will be their third title.

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