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"With an English degree I found literary work, in publishing, mostly reading manuscripts, then in reviewing, occasiona…"

"The more I thought about it, the more obsessed I became with the idea of a swimming journey. I started to dream ever …"

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"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."