"It was a marvellous morning, clear as a mirror, warm as the promise of love, bright as heaven."

"Just before Christmas, two Allied countries had sustained naval losses of shocking dimensions: Britain had lost two g…"

"Lockhart had already been in collision a number of times with the Russian interpreter, a small fiery individual who s…"

"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."

"The poet of England, he gave to the love of country, to patriotism as nowadays we call it, a voice which never shall …"