"As washing is very cheap, I wear two shirts at a time, and, for want of a wardrobe, I hang my great coat upon my own …"

"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…"

"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."