"The pattern of killing, destroying and burning was soon to be given the imprimatur of Vasco da Gama himself, when in …"

"With Calicut at his mercy, da Gama might have sent his soldiers ashore to put to the sword as many of its citizens as…"

"The transfixing of men hung in mid-air was one of the admiral’s favourite forms of execution, since it gave his soldi…"

"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…"