"I lay in the parlour between two beds to keep me from being frozen to death, for as we keep open house the winds ente…"

"Elsdon was once a market town as some say, and a city according to others; but as the annals of the parish were lost …"

"If I was not assured by the best authority on earth that the world is to be destroyed by fire, I should conclude that…"

"I have lost the use of everything but my reason, though my head is entrenched in three night-caps, and my throat, whi…"

"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."