{"title":"Roger Deakin Books","description":"\u003cp\u003eBrowse the books by Roger Deakin we have in stock, second-hand, in hardback and mass market paperback. Mostly non-fiction and biography. Every book ships from our own UK warehouse. Free UK delivery on orders of £10 or more.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"notes-from-walnut-tree-farm","title":"Notes from Walnut Tree Farm","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCalming, thought-provoking, poetic and honest\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNotes from Walnut Tree Farm\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e is a collection of writing and musing by \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003edocumentary-maker, environmentalist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e and author of \u003ci\u003eWaterlog, \u003c\/i\u003e Roger Deakin. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Gentle, straight, honest, inquisitive, funny, melancholic' \u003ci\u003eSpectator\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A lovely book that is a poignant epitaph to a remarkable individual' Amazon Review\u003cbr\u003e________________ \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor the last six years of his life, Roger Deakinkept notebooks. In them, he wrote his daily thoughts, impressions, feelings and observations about and around his Suffolk home, Walnut Tree Farm. Collected here are the very best of these writings, capturing his extraordinary, restless curiosity about nature as well as his impressions of our changing world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePerfect for fans of Robert Macfarlane and \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eColin Tudge, this is a book that fills readers with a desire to explore the world around them.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e________________ \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A secular saint' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Marvellous, wonderful, lovely, remarkable . . . to be read and reread and treasured' Elizabeth Jane Howard, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Very funny, sharp-eyed. To look at the world through Deakin's eyes was to see somewhere that was more wonderful than it often appears' \u003ci\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Thoughtful and invigorating, full of humour, timeless . . . will take its place among the classics of Nature diaries . . . to be read alongside Frances Kilvert, Gilbert White, and Dorothy Wordsworth' \u003ci\u003eMail on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'So busy and bustling with life' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/roger-deakin-books\"\u003eRoger Deakin\u003c\/a\u003e (all their books in stock)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Penguin Adult\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780141039022\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Adult","offers":[{"title":"Poor Condition — £1.00","offer_id":47909309776049,"sku":"SB-0141039027-C4","price":1.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/0141039027.jpg?v=1789616514"},{"product_id":"waterlog-a-swimmers-journey-through-britain","title":"Waterlog: A Swimmer's Journey Through Britain","description":"\u003cp\u003eInspired by John Cheever's classic short story, \"The Swimmer,\" Roger Deakin set out from his moat in Suffolk to swim through the British Isles. The result of his journey is a maverick work of observation and imagination.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the Trade Paperback edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/roger-deakin-books\"\u003eRoger Deakin\u003c\/a\u003e (all their books in stock)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Random House UK\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780701166526\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Random House UK","offers":[{"title":"Standard Secondhand — £27.36","offer_id":47912613445809,"sku":"SB-0701166525-C3","price":27.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/0701166525.jpg?v=1789259658"},{"product_id":"wildwood-a-journey-through-trees","title":"Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees","description":"\u003cp\u003eHere, published for the first time in the United States, is the last book by Roger Deakin, famed British nature writer and icon of the environmentalist movement. In Deakin's glorious meditation on wood, the \"fifth element\" -- as it exists in nature, in our culture, and in our souls -- the reader accompanies Deakin through the woods of Britain, Europe, Kazakhstan, and Australia in search of what lies behind man's profound and enduring connection with trees.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeakin lives in forest shacks, goes \"coppicing\" in Suffolk, swims beneath the walnut trees of the Haut-Languedoc, and hunts bushplums with Aboriginal women in the outback. Along the way, he ferrets out the mysteries of woods, detailing the life stories of the timber beams composing his Elizabethan house and searching for the origin of the apple.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the world's forests are whittled away, Deakin's sparkling prose evokes woodlands anarchic with life, rendering each tree as an individual, living being. At once a traveler's tale and a splendid work of natural history, \"Wildwood\" reveals, amid the world's marvelous diversity, that which is universal in human experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/roger-deakin-books\"\u003eRoger Deakin\u003c\/a\u003e (all their books in stock)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Free Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781416593621\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Free Press","offers":[{"title":"Standard Secondhand — £10.96","offer_id":47915789877425,"sku":"SB-1416593624-C3","price":10.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/1416593624.jpg?v=1789712550"},{"product_id":"swimming-vintage-minis","title":"Swimming: Vintage Minis","description":"\u003cp\u003eIs 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSelected from the book \u003ci\u003eWaterlog\u003c\/i\u003e by Roger Deakin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eVINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA series of short books by the world’s greatest writers on the experiences that make us human\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlso in the Vintage Minis series:\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEating \u003c\/i\u003eby Nigella Lawson\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLiberty \u003c\/i\u003eby Virginia Woolf\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSummer \u003c\/i\u003eby Laurie Lee\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDesire \u003c\/i\u003eby Haruki Murakami\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/roger-deakin-books\"\u003eRoger Deakin\u003c\/a\u003e (all their books in stock)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Mass Market Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e National Geographic Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781784872762\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"National Geographic Books","offers":[{"title":"Standard Secondhand — £1.00","offer_id":47917046169777,"sku":"SB-1784872768-C3","price":1.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/1784872768.jpg?v=1789172505"},{"product_id":"waterlog-the-book-that-inspired-the-wild-swimming-movement","title":"Waterlog: The book that inspired the wild swimming movement","description":"\u003ci\u003eWaterlog\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003ecelebrates the magic of water and the beauty of wild Britain.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In 1996 Roger Deakin set out to swim the British Isles. He swam in the sea, in rivers, in streams, tarns, lakes, lochs, ponds, lidos, swimming pools, fens, dykes, moats, aqueducts, waterfalls, flooded quarries and even canals. This funny, wise, delightful book documents his journey. It inspired a movement, creating wild swimmers out of many readers.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Detained by water bailiffs in Winchester, intercepted in the Fowey estuary by coastguards, mistaken for a suicide on Camber sands, confronting the Corryvreckan whirlpool in the Hebrides, Deakin discovered just how much of an outsider the native swimmer is to his landlocked, fully-dressed fellow citizens.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWaterlog\u003c\/i\u003e is a personal journey, a bold assertion of the native swimmer's right to roam, and an unforgettable celebration of the magic of water.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eINTRODUCED BY OLIVIA LAING\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'A delicious, cleansing, funny, wise and joyful book, so wonderfully full of energy and life' Jane Gardam'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'Roger Deakin is the perfect companion for an invigorating armchair swim' \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/roger-deakin-books\"\u003eRoger Deakin\u003c\/a\u003e (all their books in stock)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Vintage Classic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781784700065\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Deakin, Roger","offers":[{"title":"Poor Condition — £1.84","offer_id":47977665134769,"sku":"SB-1784700061-C4","price":1.84,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/1784700061.jpg?v=1790373304"}],"url":"https:\/\/sellbooks.co.uk\/collections\/roger-deakin-books.oembed","provider":"Sell Books .co.uk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}