Book description
Notes from Walnut Tree Farm is a collection of writing by
Roger Deakin
For the last six years of his life, Roger Deakin kept notebooks in
which he wrote his daily thoughts, impressions, feelings and
observations about and around his 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.
'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
'Gentle, straight, honest, inquisitive, funny, melancholic' Spectator
'So busy and bustling with life' Observer
'A secular saint' The Times
Roger Deakin, who died in August 2006, shortly after completing the
manuscript for Wildwood, was a writer, broadcaster and
film-maker with a particular interest in nature and the environment.
He lived for many years in Suffolk, where he swam regularly in his
moat, in the river Waveney and in the sea, in between travelling
widely through the landscapes he writes about in Wildwood. He
is the author of Waterlog, Wildwood and Notes from
Walnut Tree Farm.
Praise for Wildwood: 'Naturalist writing at its finest. Fascinating,
eloquent and elegiac' Scotsman 'A masterpiece which deserves to be read
and reread' Guardian 'One of my favourite kind of books. Few books make
you change your habits; this one changed mine' Will Self New Statesman
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.
