Notes from Walnut Tree Farm by Roger Deakin - ISBN: 9780141039022
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Deakin’s unpublished nature notes: beauty, wisdom, and wonder from Walnut Tree Farm.

Notes from Walnut Tree Farm

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  • Paperback

    320 pages

  • Release Date

    24 July 2009

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Summary

An essential collection of the best and most beautiful of Roger Deakin’s unpublished writing

When Roger Deakin died in August 2006, his death was considered by many to be a great loss to literature. Notes From Walnut Tree Farm collects together the jottings, musings and observations with which he filled a series of notebooks for the last six years of his life.

In this beautiful illustrated collection, descriptions of walks on Mellis Common and thoughts on the importance of nat…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780141039022
ISBN-10:0141039027
Author:Roger Deakin, Alison Hastie, Terence Blacker
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Books Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:320
Release Date:24 July 2009
Weight:225g
Dimensions:198mm x 130mm x 18mm
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Critics Review

‘Superb. Totally fresh and vivid’ - Chris Yates ‘Deakin’s account sings, as unruly and robust as the world he bore witness to … Deakin’s greatest gift is to make the ecologically minded life a matter of gleeful fun’ Observer ‘If anything this book is superior to Deakin’s previous book Wildwood, which is saying something, since that was marvellous. The diary form works beautifully … In just a few words, Deakin can delight and inspire in equal measure’ - Tom Hodgkinson

About The Author

Roger Deakin

Roger Deakin was a filmmaker and writer with a particular interest in nature and the environment. He was the author of the highly acclaimed Waterlog and Wildwood. He lived in Suffolk, and died there in August 2006, aged 63.

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