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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 ...
Waterlog, a book by Roger Deakin, prominently features the Corryvreckan whirlpool as a driving force behind the book's premise—a wild swimming and bathing journey through Britain. [21] The Scottish death metal band Hand of Kalliach produced an album Corryvreckan in 2024. [22]
Waterlog: A Swimmer's Journey Through Britain, a 1999 book by Roger Deakin Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Waterlogging .
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 ...
This list includes notable individuals who served in the Special Air Service (SAS) – (Regular or TA).. Michael Asher – author, historian and desert explorer; Sir Peter de la Billière – Commander-in-Chief British Forces in the Gulf War
Common Ground were one of the few organisations who saw in the Great Storm of 1987 not wholesale destruction, but an opportunity for nature to reassert itself. [5] [6] They printed and distributed 56,000 postcards, featuring illustrations by David Nash encouraging people to let nature take its course, not to clean up too hastily, as a fallen tree is not necessarily a dead tree.
In August 2010, she presented a one-hour documentary on BBC Four, Wild Swimming, inspired by Roger Deakin's book Waterlog. [36] Roberts presented a four-part BBC Two series on archaeology in August–September 2010, Digging for Britain.
Barrell moved to London in 1961 and lived for some years with Roger Deakin, author of Waterlog, in a flat they shared in Bayswater.He worked as a writer and researcher for Pathé Films from 1965 to 1969 and made journeys to shoot Pathe Pictorial in Morocco, Bermuda, Florida, New York and Hong Kong.