"... But what would happen if genetic determinism could be destroyed once and for all? Will men cease to be patriarcha…"

"... The male emperor penguin brooding his mate's egg over the Antarctic winter cannot be relieved by his mate because…"

"Hybrid vigour is so dramatic when it occurs that it seems to make the arguments for outbreeding depression implausibl…"

"The more I thought about it, the more obsessed I became with the idea of a swimming journey. I started to dream ever …"

"From water level, I observed the mating joined in flight like refuelling aircraft, and the random progress of the clo…"

"It is through trees that we see and hear the wind: woodland people can tell the species of a tree from the sound it m…"

"Waterlog (1999), Roger's now-classic account of swimming through Britain, published twenty years ago this year, opens…"

"In 1973, Roger Deakin, a British writer and environmental activist, acquired a tumbledown sixteenth-century farmhouse…"

"Der lange Marsch durch die Institutionen."

"where George II died and where Queen Victoria was born is still used as apartments for the sovereign's relatives: Pri…"