"Why did I write this book? I have already written a book of s published as long as 1973. It was called ‘’The Escapist…"

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"Nerina Shute, who began writing about films in the along with fellow reviewers Graham Greene and John Betjeman, and w…"

"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…"