"A space containing electric currents may be regarded as a field where energy is transformed at certain points into th…"

"When we see the havoc wrought on a sea-wall by a storm, it is easy to believe that ocean waves exert a pressure again…"

"The Earth, then, is very round. If an exact model were made the size of a two-inch billiard ball, we should just be a…"

"The main influence on all of the activity in electromagnetic theory during the later years of the nineteenth century …"

"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…"

"Tolkien has become a monster, devoured by his own popularity and absorbed into the absurdity of our time. The chasm b…"