"The }} constitute by far the larger proportion of the inhabitants of the ; they vary considerably in number at differ…"

"The first, and by no means the least important, consideration of every prospective poultry keeper is the situation an…"

"and possess one great recommendation as sitters, in the soft and abundant supply of downy feathers that so specially …"

"The structure and habits of the family or group of pigeons are so peculiar and so strikingly distinct from those of a…"

"Having described the breed known as the Carrier, and the varieties allied to it, we have now to consider the differen…"

"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…"