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The Swimmer
The Wild Life of Roger Deakin
Buch von Patrick Barkham
Sprache: Englisch

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BEST BOOK OF 2023 ACCORDING TO THE NEWSTATESMAN AND OBSERVER

The definitive biography of beloved author, Roger Deakin


Roger Deakin, author of the immortal Waterlog and Wildwood, was a man of unusually many parts. A born writer who nonetheless took decades to write his first book, Roger was also variously - and sometimes simultaneously - maverick ad-man, seller of stripped pine furniture on the Portobello Road, cider-maker, teacher, environmentalist, music promoter, and filmmaker. But above all he was the restorer of ancient Walnut Tree Farm in Suffolk, the heartland which he shared with a host of visitors, both animal and human, and wrote about - as he wrote about all natural life - with rare attention, intimacy, precision and poetry.

Roger Deakin was unique, and so too is this joyful work of creative biography, told primarily in the words of the subject himself, with support from a chorus of friends, family, colleagues, lovers and neighbours.

Delving deep into Roger Deakin's library of words, Patrick Barkham draws from notebooks, diaries, letters, recordings, published work and early drafts, to conjure his voice back to glorious life in these pages. To read this book is to listen in to a dream conversation between a writer and those who knew him intimately.

BEST BOOK OF 2023 ACCORDING TO THE NEWSTATESMAN AND OBSERVER

The definitive biography of beloved author, Roger Deakin


Roger Deakin, author of the immortal Waterlog and Wildwood, was a man of unusually many parts. A born writer who nonetheless took decades to write his first book, Roger was also variously - and sometimes simultaneously - maverick ad-man, seller of stripped pine furniture on the Portobello Road, cider-maker, teacher, environmentalist, music promoter, and filmmaker. But above all he was the restorer of ancient Walnut Tree Farm in Suffolk, the heartland which he shared with a host of visitors, both animal and human, and wrote about - as he wrote about all natural life - with rare attention, intimacy, precision and poetry.

Roger Deakin was unique, and so too is this joyful work of creative biography, told primarily in the words of the subject himself, with support from a chorus of friends, family, colleagues, lovers and neighbours.

Delving deep into Roger Deakin's library of words, Patrick Barkham draws from notebooks, diaries, letters, recordings, published work and early drafts, to conjure his voice back to glorious life in these pages. To read this book is to listen in to a dream conversation between a writer and those who knew him intimately.

Über den Autor
Patrick Barkham is an award-winning author and natural history writer for the Guardian. His books include The Butterfly Isles, Badgerlands, Islander and Wild Child. He is President of Norfolk Wildlife Trust and lives in Norfolk with his family.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Biographien
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Buch
ISBN-13: 9780241471470
ISBN-10: 0241471478
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Barkham, Patrick
Hersteller: Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
Hamish Hamilton
Maße: 242 x 167 x 40 mm
Von/Mit: Patrick Barkham
Erscheinungsdatum: 25.05.2023
Gewicht: 0,63 kg
Artikel-ID: 121955533
Über den Autor
Patrick Barkham is an award-winning author and natural history writer for the Guardian. His books include The Butterfly Isles, Badgerlands, Islander and Wild Child. He is President of Norfolk Wildlife Trust and lives in Norfolk with his family.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Biographien
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Buch
ISBN-13: 9780241471470
ISBN-10: 0241471478
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Barkham, Patrick
Hersteller: Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
Hamish Hamilton
Maße: 242 x 167 x 40 mm
Von/Mit: Patrick Barkham
Erscheinungsdatum: 25.05.2023
Gewicht: 0,63 kg
Artikel-ID: 121955533
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