"In 1844, (once captain of the ', now Governor of New Zealand) interviewed an ancient named Haumatangi who claimed to …"

"Anyone looking quickly at a stuffed might think it was a , and this is hardly surprising. Except for its enormous bea…"

"Sometimes the of a species can be traced back to a single cause. More often there are a number of contributory factor…"

"The story of the reads like a work of fiction. At the start of the nineteenth century these birds existed in unimagin…"

"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…"

"Besides the darkness of the night, many minor shadows cross our paths, making the hues of Life obscure. These are not…"