"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."

"The poet of England, he gave to the love of country, to patriotism as nowadays we call it, a voice which never shall …"

"It is in Henry V. that Shakespeare fashioned for us the true epic of England. The dramatic form sits very loosely upo…"

"For Shakespeare, as I have said, was above and before all things a lover of England. With how bitter a contempt would…"