Notes from Walnut Tree Farm

Deakin, Roger. Edited by Alison Hastie and Terence Blacker

ISBN 10: 0241144205 / ISBN 13: 9780241144206

Edité par Hamish Hamilton Ltd / Penguin Group, London, 2008

A propos de cet article

First edition, first impression with '1' on copyright page. Decorated boards, no jacket as issued, dark green endpapers. Some edge wear to top and bottom of covers and spine, corners bruised, price on back board (£20.00), no inscriptions, internally cleanish tight and square, overall a vg+ copy. 309pp. For the last six years of his life, naturalist and author Roger Deakin (1943-2006), kept notebooks in which he wrote his daily thoughts, impressions, feelings and observations. Discursive, personal and often impassioned, they reveal the way he saw the world, whether it be observing the teeming ecosystem that was Walnut Tree Farm, thinking about the wider environment, walking in his fields, on Mellis Common or on his travels at home, or contemplating his past and his present life. 'Notes from Walnut Tree Farm' collects the very best of these writings, capturing Roger's extraordinary, restless curiosity about the natural and human worlds, his love of literature and music, his knack for making unusual and apposite connections, and of course his distinct and subversive charm and humour. Together they cohere to present a passionate, engaged and in spite of the worst pressures of contemporary life an optimistic view of our changing world.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Notes from Walnut Tree Farm
• Éditeur: Hamish Hamilton Ltd / Penguin Group, London
• Date de parution: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0241144205
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780241144206
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• Impression: 1st Printing
• État de l'article: Very Good

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Synopsis

For the last six years of his life, Roger Deakin kept notebooks in which he wrote his daily thoughts, impressions, feelings and observations. Discursive, personal and often impassioned, they reveal the way he saw the world, whether it be observing the teeming ecosystem that was Walnut Tree Farm, thinking about the wider environment, walking in his fields, on Mellis Common or on his travels at home, or contemplating his past and his present life. "Notes from Walnut Tree Farm" collects the very best of these writings, capturing Roger's extraordinary, restless curiosity about the natural and human worlds, his love of literature and music, his knack for making unusual and apposite connections, and of course his distinct and subversive charm and humour. Together they cohere to present a passionate, engaged and - in spite of the worst pressures of contemporary life - optimistic view of our changing world.

À propos de l?auteur

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.