Roger Deakin

Como buen inglés, Roger Deakin adoraba el agua. Así que un día de 1996 se lanzó al foso de su casa en Suffolk y se propuso recorrer las islas británicas a nado. Playas, pozas, ríos, estanques y lidos. Acueductos, canales, cascadas y canteras inundadas. Deakin recorrio su pais contemplando la vida desde la perspectiva de las ranas, y fue interceptado por guardacostas, confundido con un suicida e incluso estuvo a punto de ser engullido por un remolino en las Hebridas.Una vibrante oda al inconformismo, a la imaginacion y a la voluntad de actuar con libertad plena. Un viaje inolvidable y una audaz celebracion de la atraccion que el agua sigue ejerciendo en todos los seres vivos.Un dia de 1996, inspirado por El nadador de John Cheever, Roger Deakin emprendio el sueño de su vida: recorrer las islas britanicas a nado. El libro que escribio se convertiria en un clasico de culto.

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 u

For the last six years of his life Roger Deakin kept notebooks in which he wrote his daily thoughts impressions feelings and observations about and around his home Walnut Tree Farm This title collects his writings capturing his restless curiosity about nature and his impressions of our changing world

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 rocosa

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 and cabins, travels in search of the wild apple groves of Kazakhstan, goes coppicing in Suffolk, swims beneath the walnut trees of the Haut-Languedoc, and hunts bushplums with Aboriginal women in the outback

Is there anything quite so exhilarating as swimming in wild water? This is a joyful swimming tour of Britain, a frogs-eye view of the countrys 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 swimmers 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 DeakinVINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.A series of short books by the worlds greatest writers on the experiences that make us humanAlso in the Vintage Minis series:Eating by Nigella LawsonLiberty by Virginia WoolfSummer by Laurie LeeDesire by Haruki Murakami

« Plus j’y pensais et plus cette idée d’un voyage à la nage devenait une obsession. Peu à peu, l’eau avait envahi mes rêves. Nager et rêver se mêlaient jusqu’à n’être plus qu’un. J’étais de plus en p

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 mond

Waterlog celebrates the magic of water and the beauty of wild Britain.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.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.Waterlog is a personal journey, a bold assertion of the native swimmers right to roam, and an unforgettable celebration of the magic of water.INTRODUCED BY OLIVIA LAINGA delicious, cleansing, funny, wise and joyful book, so wonderfully full of energy and life Jane GardamRoger Deakin is the perfect companion for an invigorating armchair swimDaily Telegraph

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, melancholicSpectatorA lovely book that is a poignant epitaph to a remarkable individual Amazon Review________________For 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. Perfect for fans of Robert Macfarlane and Colin Tudge, this is a book that fills readers with a desire to explore the world around them. ________________A secular saintThe TimesMarvellous, wonderful, lovely, remarkable . . . to be read and reread and treasured Elizabeth Jane Howard, Daily MailVery funny, sharp-eyed. To look at the world through Deakins eyes was to see somewhere that was more wonderful than it often appearsSunday TelegraphThoughtful 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 WordsworthMail on SundaySo busy and bustling with lifeObserver

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 tambien la madera, ese quinto elemento como parte de comunidades mucho mas grandes, repletas de historias con un amplio e inolvidable elenco de artesanos, artistas, granjeros, mimbreros o recolectores de nueces, asi como de plantas, bardas, pajaros y polillas. Deakin recorre asi no solo su Inglaterra natal: su viaje lo lleva hasta bosques de los Pirineos, Australia o Asia Central, en un intento de rozar con su escritura el duramen de una fascinacion y un amor por la madera, el arbol y el bosque al alcance de muy pocos.