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Author: Deakin, Roger

Memoirs

Published on 25 June 2009 by Penguin Books Ltd in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 320 pages
196 x 130 x 20 | 226g

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 ReviewFor the last six years of his life, Roger Deakin kept 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