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Fragments

Roger Deakin & Robert Macfarlane

‘Entering a wood is to enter an element as different as the sea.’

Roger Deakin

Roger Deakin was a writer, film-maker and broadcaster. He is the author of Waterlog and Wildwood. A collection of extracts from his notebooks and journals were published as Notes from Walnut Tree Farm, edited by Terence Blacker and Alison Hastie.

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Robert Macfarlane

Robert Macfarlane was born in Nottinghamshire in 1976. He is the author of Mountains of the Mind, The Wild Places, The Old Ways and Landmarks. Mountains of the Mind won the Guardian First Book Award, the Somerset Maugham Award and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. The Wild Places won the Boardman-Tasker Award and the Sundial Scottish Arts Council Non-fiction Award. He is a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and writes on environmentalism, literature and travel for publications including the Guardian, the Sunday Times and The New York Times.

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