"In a comparatively late period – that which followed the rise of historical literature among the Greeks – we find a b…"

"When, however, this spirit once awakened, it was perceived that the current stories of these ancient settlements affo…"

"It seems possible and even necessary to take a middle course between the old and the new opinions."

"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."

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