Notes from Walnut Tree Farm
Roger Deakin(Author)
Hamish Hamilton Ltd (Publisher)
Published on 30. October 2008
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-0-241-14420-6 (ISBN)
Description
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, thinking about the wider environment, walking in his fields, on Mellis Common or on his travels at home, or contemplating his past and his present life. "Notes from Walnut Tree Farm" collects the very best of these writings, capturing Roger's extraordinary, restless curiosity about the natural and human worlds, his love of literature and music, his knack for making unusual and apposite connections, and of course his distinct and subversive charm and humour. Together they cohere to present a passionate, engaged and - in spite of the worst pressures of contemporary life - optimistic view of our changing world.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Penguin Books Ltd
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 162 mm
Thickness: 31 mm
Weight
548 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-241-14420-6 (9780241144206)
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Persons
A filmmaker and writer with a particular interest in nature and the environment, Roger Deakin was the author of the highly acclaimed Waterlog and Wildwood. He lived in Suffolk, and died there in August 2006, aged 63.