"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…"

"Settlers of purely Egyptian blood, crossing the Aegean and founding maritime cities, appears inconsistent with everyt…"

"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, …"