"Behind me, bare s and es lie as cracks against the sky, evoking a peculiarly English landscape. In the late eighteent…"

"Hoare's Leviathan is part natural history, part literary criticism, part economics and part memoir but at its heart i…"

"… He moves from personal to literary history with muscular seamlessness (much as he did in the earlier books). We lea…"

"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…"

"She became most fervent, continually risking her life by harbouring and maintaining priests, was frequently imprisone…"

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