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Book review: Where We Swim by Ingrid Horrocks 10 Apr, 2021 12:00 AM 3 minutes to read Ingrid Horrocks new book is a series of musing on strange swimming explorations . NZ Herald Victoria University Press, $35 Despite the title and cover photograph there is not a lot of swimming going on in this book. By the time we have reached the halfway point, there has been an inadvisable crossing of a polluted river mouth in Taranaki; a splash around in an apartment complex pool in Medellin, Colombia; a nervous slide into a cordoned-off offshoot of the Amazon River; a hotel pool in Phoenix and another, embedded in the basalt cliff face, in the experimental metropolis Arcosanti in the Arizona desert. ....