Patrick Barkham The Swimmer Paperback UK Edition Biodiversity Memoir
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Further Details Title: The Swimmer Condition: New Subtitle: The Wild Life of Roger Deakin ISBN-10: 0241471486 EAN: 9780241471487 ISBN: 9780241471487 Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Format: Paperback Release Date: 04/04/2024 Description: BEST BOOK OF 2023 ACCORDING TO THE NEWSTATESMAN AND OBSERVER ' The Swimmer is a wonderful, original achievement; teeming with stories, glittering with images, and experimental in form and tone' Robert Macfarlane Roger Deakin, author of the immortal Waterlog , was a man of many parts: maverick ad-man, cider-maker, teacher, environmentalist, music promoter and filmmaker. But, above all, he was the restorer of ancient Walnut Tree Farm in Suffolk, the heartland where 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 and lovers. Delving deep into Deakin’s library of words, Patrick Barkham draws from notebooks, diaries, letters and recordings to conjure his voice back to glorious life in these pages. 'A rich, strange and compelling work of creative memoir that beautifully honours and elevates the life and work of its subject' Alex Preston, Observer Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: GB Item Height: 198mm Item Length: 129mm Item Width: 24mm Item Weight: 288g Author: Patrick Barkham Genre: Home Garden & Pets Topic: Science Nature & Math, Sports & Hobbies, Biography Release Year: 2024 Missing Information? Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
