"National culture may some day give place to cosmopolitan culture, but meantime it is a richer and intenser thing. The…"

"The landlords' land was seized in in the summer of 1917—that is, during the , and before the Communists came into pow…"

"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…"

"proposed as the chief gardener and William Brown as his assistant. Nelson had already 'sailed round the world in my s…"