The swimmer Swimming the dragon and its slayer

the dragon and its slayer are the survivors of an 800-year battle between rural legend and national record

and shares the happy accidents and road blocks she's hit along the way in honest

The first comprehensive collection of the letters of one of the most successful American songwriters of the twentieth century

The belief of the English in their superior civility shaped their relations with the Welsh

140 illustrations

The swimmer Swimming the dragon and its slayerRoger Deakin, author of the immortal 'Waterlog' and 'Wildwood,' was a man of unusually many parts. A born writer who nonetheless took decades to write his first book, Roger was also variously and sometimes simultaneously maverick ad man, seller of stripped pine furniture on the Portobello Road, cider maker, teacher, environmentalist, music promoter, and filmmaker. But above all he was the restorer of ancient Walnut Tree Farm in Suffolk, the heartland