Roger Deakin

Roger Deakin

Roger Stuart Deakin (11 February 1943 in Watford, Hertfordshire – 19 August 2006 in Mellis, Suffolk) was an English writer, documentary-maker and environmentalist.

Educated at Haberdashers' Aske's and Peterhouse, Cambridge, he first worked in advertising as a copywriter and creative director.

In 1968 he bought an Elizabethan moated farmhouse on the edge of Mellis Common, near Diss where he lived until his death. Deakin was a founder director of the arts/environmental charity Common Ground in 1982.

In 1999 his acclaimed book "Waterlog" was published by Chatto and Windus in the United Kingdom. Inspired in part by a short story by John Cheever, "The Swimmer", (Burt Lancaster was in the film), it describes his experiences of 'wild swimming', swimming in Britain's rivers and lakes and is both a campaigning work and poetic odyssey. His final published work, "Wildwood", appeared posthumously in 2007.

Bibliography

* cite book
title = Waterlog: A Swimmer's Journey Through Britain
author = Roger Deakin
year = 1999
publisher = Chatto and Windus
id = ISBN 0701166525
* cite book
title = Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees
author = Roger Deakin
year = 2007
publisher = Hamish Hamilton Ltd
id = ISBN 0241141842

External links

* [http://www.commonground.org.uk/new/n-roger.html Roger Deakin biography at Common Ground]
* [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/08/22/db2201.xml Obituary from The Telegraph]


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