"In common with other young writers whose lives were linked with theirs, Shelley, Keats and Byron were indebted to an …"

"In 1980 Earl Anderson published an article in ' on the history of foot races in which he characterised the old women'…"

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"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…"