"The fables of Witchcraft have taken so fast hold and deepe root in the heart of man, that fewe or none can (nowadaies…"

"It is a common saieng; A lion feareth no bugs. But in our childhood our mothers maids have so terrified us with an ou…"

"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…"

"Many argue that the is inhumane, that meat is expensive, that it contains uric acid, that it may be tubercular, and s…"

"Hallie Eustace Miles ... The daughter of the of , Hallie Killick married the sportsman and writer in 1906. Together w…"