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Notes from Walnut Tree Farm by Roger Deakin
$19.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
When Roger Deakin died in August 2006, his death was considered by many to be a great loss to literature. "Notes From Walnut Tree Farm" collects together the jottings, musings and observations with which he filled a series of notebooks for the last six years of his life. In this beautiful illustrated co ...Show more
Notes from Walnut Tree Farm by Roger Deakin
$59.95 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
For the last six years of his life, Roger Deakin kept notebooks in which he wrote his daily thoughts, impressions, feelings and observations. Discursive, personal and often impassioned, they reveal the way he saw the world, whether it be observing the teeming ecosystem that was Walnut Tree Farm, thinkin ...Show more
Swimming: Vintage Minis by Roger Deakin
$7.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
Is there anything quite so exhilarating as swimming in wild water? This is Roger Deakin's 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 this watery island. Charming, funny, inspiring, an assertion of the n ...Show more
Waterlog by Roger Deakin
$29.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Reading Level: very good
Inspired 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. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Wildwood : A Journey Through Trees by Roger Deakin
$59.95 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
From the walnut tree at his Suffolk home, Roger Deakin embarks upon a quest that takes him through Britain, across Europe, to Central Asia and Australia, in search of what lies behind man's profound and enduring connection with wood and with trees. Meeting woodlanders of all kinds, he lives in shacks an ...Show more
Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees by Roger Deakin
$27.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Reading Level: very good
Roger Deakin's "Wildwood" is a much loved classic of nature writing. "Wildwood" is about the element wood, as it exists in nature, in our souls, in our culture and our lives. From the walnut tree at his Suffolk home, Roger Deakin embarks upon a quest that takes him through Britain, across Europe, to Cen ...Show more
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