"The (certainly one of the most exquisitely delicious of all our fungi) is generally neglected, or regarded with great…"

"When potatoes are destroyed by parasitic in the autumn, it does not always happen that the parasite is the dreaded pu…"

"The mere barbarians, the chippers of rude weapons and tools of stone, who lived in North Britain at the time of the R…"

"The first stage coach passed through on Monday, April 12th, 1742. ... , presented great difficulties for coaches, sev…"

"Mr. Worthington Smith has devoted himself for many years to a study of the localities near London where implements ha…"

"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…"