Roger Deakin

For the English cinematographer see Roger Deakins Roger Stuart Deakin (11 February 1943 in Watford, Hertfordshire - 19 August 2006 in Mellis, Suffolk) was an English writer, documentary-maker and environmentalist. Educated at...

In this article: Suffolk, The Swimmer, Peterhouse, Cambridge, Common Ground, Chatto and Windus, Roger Deakins, John Cheever, and Burt Lancaster

...by one of the festival's founding sponsors, but rounded up a small group of like-minded outlaws and we all plunged in. Like Roger Deakin, the author of Waterlog, I know of few pleasures that match a plunge into wild, untamed water.

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...renaissance in wild swimming seems also to have been caused by Waterlog, a book in which the late writer and environmentalist Roger Deakin detailed in lyrical prose his attempt to swim through Britain. It was published in 1999, a pebble...

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"Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees," by Roger Deakin Can someone tell me why old-fashioned naturalists write so beautifully and present-day environmentalists write so badly? Roger Deakin's writing is teeming with creation. Bluebells, badgers,...

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WILDWOOD: A Journey Through Trees, by Roger Deakin. Free Press, 392 pp., $26.95. Can someone tell me why old-fashioned naturalists write so beautifully and present-day environmentalists write so badly? Deakin's writing, in this and his...

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Can someone tell me why old-fashioned naturalists write so beautifully and present-day environmentalists write so badly? Roger Deakin's writing, in this and his previous book, "Waterlog: A Swimmer's Journey Through Britain," is teeming...

In this article: Coyote, New York, Wyoming, Walnut, Cow Parsley, Common Ground, and U.S. Department of Agriculture

John Preston relishes the jottings of a very rare breed of naturalist Roger Deakin: A different perspective on life Roger Deakin, who died two years ago, was one of those rare writers who have a profound influence on the lives of their...

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...where social hierarchy is suspended In Waterlog, an account of his wild swimmer's journey through Britain, the late Roger Deakin observes the "hairless apes squealing with pleasure in the sea" at Porthcurno in Cornwall, and wonders...

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...but in the present tense of the book. Brain cancer swiftly claims Macfarlane's friend and sometime companion on these journeys, Roger Deakin. Deakin was a writer who deepened Macfarlane's notion of wildness and taught him, among many things,...

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...his or her legacy - would be content to die after producing it. Unfortunately, that's exactly what happened. Seven years ago Roger Deakin set out from his rambling Suffolk farmhouse to explore the "element" of wood, as it exists in nature,...

In this article: Rory MacLean, Colin Thubron, England, Britain, Carbon footprint, Suffolk, and Manhattan