EXTRA,  FEATURES,  May 2026

Where black water meets sky

In this reflection for Outdoor Swimmer, John Lewis-Stempel, the prize-winning nature writer and Herefordshire farmer, draws on a lifetime of rivers, fields and night wanderings to explore how swimming after dark unsettles the senses, dissolves human certainty, and returns us to our first, tidal origins

I am not a swimmer. I am not amphibious.

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