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Title: Notes from Walnut Tree Farm
Author: Roger Deakin
ISBN: 9780141039022
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2009
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 240
Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
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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
________________ 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.
________________
‘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
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