Notes Tom Walnut Tree Farm

Deakin, Roger

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For the last six years of his life, Roger Deakin kept notebooks in which he wrote his daily thoughts, impressions, feelings and observations. This is a collection of the very best of these writings, capturing his restless curiosity about the natural and human worlds, and his love of literature and music.

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Publish Date: 25/06/2009
ISBN: 9780141039022 Category: Tags: ,

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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, melancholic’ Spectator

‘A lovely book that is a poignant epitaph to a remarkable individual’ Amazon Review
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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.
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‘A secular saint’ The Times

‘Marvellous, wonderful, lovely, remarkable . . . to be read and reread and treasured’ Elizabeth Jane Howard, Daily Mail

‘Very funny, sharp-eyed. To look at the world through Deakin’s eyes was to see somewhere that was more wonderful than it often appears’ Sunday Telegraph

‘Thoughtful 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 Wordsworth’ Mail on Sunday

‘So busy and bustling with life’
Observer

Additional information

Weight 223 g
Dimensions 198 × 129 × 19 mm
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Cover

Paperback

Pages

308

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

508.092 (edition:22)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K