Roger Deakin set out in 1996 to swim through the British Isles. The result a uniquely personal view of an island race and a people with a deep affinity for water. From the sea, from rock pools, from rivers and streams, tarns, lakes, lochs, ponds, lidos, swimming pools and spas, from fens, dykes, moats, aqueducts, waterfalls, flooded quarries, even canals, Deakin gains a fascinating perspective on modern Britain. Detained by water bailiffs in Winchester, intercepted in the Fowey estuary by ...

A much-loved classic of nature writing from environmentalist and the author of Waterlog, Roger Deakin, Wildwood is an exploration of the element wood in nature, our culture and our lives.'Breathtaking, vividly written . . . reading Wildwood is an elegiac experience' Sunday Times'He writes nature as a blackbird sings, or a bird of prey rides therma...

Calming, thought-provoking, poetic and honest**, Notes from Walnut Tree Farm** is a collection of writing and musing by documentary-maker, environmentalist and author of Waterlog, Roger Deakin.'Gentle, straight, honest, inquisitive, funny, melancholic' Spectator'A lovely book that is a poignant epitaph to a remarkable individual' Amazon Review________________For the...

Is there anything quite so exhilarating as swimming in wild water? This is a joyful swimming tour of Britain, a frog’s-eye view of the country’s best bathing holes – the rivers, rock pools, lakes, ponds, lochs and sea that define a watery island. Charming, funny, inspiring, an assertion of the native swimmer's right to roam, a celebration of the magic of water – this book will indeed make you want to strip off and leap in.Selected from the book Waterlog by Roger Deakin...

S’immerger dans le poème du monde fut l’obsession de Roger Deakin : entrer dans une forêt, nous explique-t-il d’emblée, « c’est rejoindre un monde différent qui nous transforme en profondeur, un monde où l’on peut se retrouver — souvent, paradoxalement, en se perdant ». Terminé quatre mois avant la mort de l’auteur, cet ouvrage nous invite à une immersion totale dans l’élément bois, avec la conviction que « les ennemis des arbres sont les ennemis de l’humanité ». Un voyage enlevé, intensém...

Brought to you by Penguin.Roger Deakin set out in 1996 to swim through the British Isles. The result a uniquely personal view of an island race and a people with a deep affinity for water. From the sea, from rock pools, from rivers and streams, tarns, lakes, lochs, ponds, lidos, swimming pools and spas, from fens, dykes, moats, aqueducts, waterfalls, flooded quarries, even canals, Deakin gains a fascinating perspective on modern Britain. Detained by water bailiffs ...

An anthology of programmes hosted by and about Roger Deakin, the legendary naturalist, introduced byhis friend Robert Macfarlane.Author, filmmaker and conservationist Roger Deakin first came to fame with his bestselling book Waterlog, which brought wild swimming into the mainstream and pioneered the 'new nature writing' genre. Published posthumously, his second travelogue, Wildwood, and collected journals, Notes from Walnut Tree Farm

Il bello del nuoto in sé e per sé è che tutto si concentra nel 'qui e ora': non una briciola della sua intensità ed essenza può fuggire nel passato o nel futuro. Il nuotatore si accontenta di lasciarsi trasportare sul suo percorso traboccante di misteri, dubbi e incertezze. È una foglia nel ruscello, finalmente libero dalle insulse preoccupazioni della vita.

Brought to you by Penguin.Calming, thought-provoking, poetic and honest**, Notes from Walnut Tree Farm** is a collection of writing and musing by documentary-maker, environmentalist and author of Waterlog, Roger Deakin.For the last six years of his life, Roger Deakinkept notebooks. In them, he wrote his daily thoughts, impressions, feelings and observations about and aroun...

Brought to you by Penguin.A much-loved classic of nature writing from environmentalist and the author of Waterlog, Roger Deakin, Wildwood is an exploration of the element wood in nature, our culture and our lives.From the walnut tree at his Suffolk home, he embarks upon a quest that takes him through Britain, across Europe, to Central Asia and Australia, in search of what lies behind man's...

Un delicioso clásico del autor de los «Diarios del agua»: libro de viajes, de paseos bajo las copas de los árboles, que se lee como una plácida novela de aventuras.«Entrar en un bosque es acceder a un mundo distinto en el cual nos transformamos». Con estas palabras nos invita Roger Deakin a adentrarnos en Diarios del bosque, un libro que bulle con esa curiosidad de la que se nutre la vida. Un texto que desvela el bosque —y también la madera, ese «quinto elemento»— ...

Inspirado por «El nadador» de John Cheever, el escritor Roger Deakin se lanzó en 1996 al foso que rodeaba su casa en Suffolk y se propuso recorrer las Islas Británicas a nado. Playas, piscinas rocosas, ríos, arroyos, pantanos, estanques, lagos y lidos. Diques, fosos, acueductos, cascadas, canales y canteras inundadas. Deakin recorrerá su país a nado contemplando la vida desde la perspectiva de las ranas, y será detenido por alguaciles fluviales, interceptado por los guardacostas, confundid...