Roger Deakin
Author
A lore unto himself: Owen Sheers is having his way with an ancient myth...a conscious aim but is happy to be associated with a trend that includes the bestselling travelogues of Robert Macfarlane, Roger Deakin and Kate Rew and the small-screen successes of Coast. "More and more of us are living in urban... In this article: Owen Sheers, Britain, Resistance, '...when Matthew, London, New York, Dylan Thomas, and BBC Four |
Quotes about Roger Deakin
-
May 23, 2009
Scotland on Sunday
"I've never known a book that has had such an effect in terms of changing the behaviour of people,"
says Deakin's friend, the writer Robert Macfarlane."Thousands of people have thrown themselves into water as a result of reading it."
Read more: With its clean lochs, tarns, rivers and sea, Scotland is experiencing a renaissance in wild swimming | In this article: Scotland, Robert Macfarlane, Tennessee Williams, WH Murray, Britain, Arbroath, and Anxiety
Trends
Loading...
More on Roger Deakin
Description from Wikipedia:
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 Haberdashers' Aske's and Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he read English, he first worked in advertising as a copywriter and creative director.
In 1968 he bought an Elizabethan moated farmhouse on the edge of Mellis Common, near Diss where he lived until his death from a brain tumour, first diagnosed only four months before his death.
Deakin was a founder director of the arts/environmental charity Common Ground in 1982.
In 1999 his acclaimed book Waterlog was published by Chatto and Windus in the United Kingdom. Inspired in part by a short story by John Cheever, The Swimmer, (Burt Lancaster was in the film), it describes his experiences of 'wild swimming', swimming in Britain's rivers and lakes and is both a campaigning work and poetic odyssey. Wildwood, appeared posthumously in 2007 and in November 2008, Notes from Walnut Tree Farm - a collection of writing taken from his personal notebooks was published to high critical appraisal.
Explore everything named Roger Deakin...
