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Roger Stuart Deakin (11 February 1943 [1] – 19 August 2006) was an English writer, documentary-maker and environmentalist. He was a co-founder and trustee of Common Ground, the arts, culture and environment organisation. Waterlog, the only book he published in his lifetime, topped the UK best seller charts, and founded the wild swimming ...
In 2005 Robert Macfarlane and Roger Deakin set out to find the possible location of the 'holloway' where the protagonist makes his stand in Dorset. Deakin writes of it in his posthumously published diaries Notes from Walnut Farm, and Macfarlane in his introduction to a reissue of Rogue Male [5] and his own book Holloway (2013).
Sir Roger Alexander Deakins CBE (born 24 May 1949) is an English cinematographer. He is the recipient of five BAFTA Awards for Best Cinematography, and two Academy Awards for Best Cinematography from sixteen nominations. He has collaborated multiple times with directors such as the Coen brothers, Sam Mendes, and Denis Villeneuve.
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Roger Deakin was an English writer, documentary-maker and environmentalist. In 1999, Deakin's acclaimed book Waterlog was published. [ 14 ] Inspired in part by the short story The Swimmer by John Cheever , it describes his experiences of ' wild swimming ' in Britain's rivers and lakes and advocates open access to the countryside and waterways ...
Myers' novel The Gallows Pole (2017), based on the true story of the Cragg Vale Coiners, received a Roger Deakin Award and won the 2018 Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction. [11] As part of the prize, both author and book title appeared as the official Royal Mail franking stamp for a week on an estimated 60 million pieces of mail.
Gates' bonus book pick is a visual biography of tennis player Roger Federer by sports writer Doris Henkel. It features never-before-published photos of the sports icon. It features never-before ...
The King in the North was published in 2013 and was followed by "In the Land of Giants: Journey through the dark ages" in 2014, [21] a book in which Max recounts his travels across Britain and links his experiences to the land's Dark Age past. [22] For the book, Max was awarded a Roger Deakin award to support his research. [8]