"Our predecessors, the Druids of Britain, tho' left in the extremest west to the improvement of their own thoughts, ye…"

"This mighty wall of four score miles in length is only exceeded by the Chinese wall, which makes a considerable figur…"

"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 …"

"It is in Henry V. that Shakespeare fashioned for us the true epic of England. The dramatic form sits very loosely upo…"