{"product_id":"the-swimmer-the-wild-life-of-roger-deakin-9780241471470","title":"The Swimmer: The Wild Life of Roger Deakin","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Swimmer: The Wild Life of Roger Deakin\u003c\/strong\u003e by Barkham, Patrick. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780241471470.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRoger Deakin is best known for his modern classic of nature writing, Waterlog, which frog-kicked the wild swimming movement into existence with wit, politics and poetry.\n\nBut he was not simply a dazzling writer and eccentric Englishman. He took his counterculture to the countryside in the 1970s and rebuilt a 16th century farmhouse from its oak beams up. He turned to self-sufficiency, teaching and environmentalism. He became a music impresario and made films, radio programmes and hundreds of friends from all classes - aristocrats, poachers, actors, builders, musicians, tearaways, from city and from town. He was a polymath, an enthusiast, an adventurer, a romantic and rebel.\n\nRoger Deakin was unique, and so too is this joyful work of creative biography, told primarily in the words of the subject himself, with support from a chorus of friends, family, colleagues, lovers and neighbours. Delving deep into Roger Deakins library of words, Patrick Barkham draws from notebooks, diaries, letters, recordings, published work and early drafts, to conjure his voice back to glorious life in these pages.\n\nPatrick Barkhams biography follows Roger Deakins tree of life, from roots to fruits, revealing the inner life of an extraordinary man.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hamish Hamilton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44956131033141,"sku":"ByrdShop_0241471478","price":42.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780241471470_c007b92a-33c5-489a-bc14-284040db6f98.jpg?v=1792477827","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-swimmer-the-wild-life-of-roger-deakin-9780241471470","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}