"Unlike Christianity, which preached a peace that it never achieved, Islam unashamedly came with a sword."

"I believe that the supreme duty of the historian is to write history, that is to say, to attempt to record in one swe…"

"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…"

"Tolkien has become a monster, devoured by his own popularity and absorbed into the absurdity of our time. The chasm b…"

"Der lange Marsch durch die Institutionen."

"It is clear that there are as many different languages as peoples in this island. The Scots, however, and the Welsh, …"