| 词条 | Roger Deakin |
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LifeDeakin was born in Watford, Hertfordshire, and was an only child. His father was a railway clerk, from Walsall in the Midlands, who died when Deakin was 17. Educated at The Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, an independent school, based at the time in Hampstead in north west London, followed by Peterhouse, University of Cambridge, Deakin read English, under the auspices of writer Kingsley Amis.[1] Deakin first worked in advertising as a copywriter and creative director for Colman Prentis and Varley, while living in Bayswater, London. He was responsible for the National Coal Board slogan "Come home to a real fire". Following this, he taught French and English at Diss Grammar School for three years.[1] In 1968, he bought Walnut Tree Farm, a semi-ruined Elizabethan moated, wood beamed farmhouse on the edge of Mellis Common in Suffolk, near Diss, which he rebuilt and developed over many years and where he lived until his death. He dredged the moat, where he swam daily, planted woodland and bought more of the surrounding fields, where he grew hay and wild flowers. The land included several shepherds huts and Deakin went on to build a cabin for his son Rufus.[1][2] The house was without central heating but housed an Aga and wide open fireplaces. A colony of swallows lived in the main chimney and for several years chickens and ducks shared his kitchen. Deakin married Jenny Hind in 1973 with whom he had a son, Rufus, before the marriage was dissolved in 1982.[1] Deakin died, aged 63, in Mellis, Suffolk. He had been diagnosed with a brain tumour only four months previously. He is survived by his partner Alison Hastie and his son.[1] His archive has been given to the University of East Anglia, including writings on ancient trees, along with film banks, photographs, journals and Deakin's swimming trunks.[3] The nature writer Robert Macfarlane was Deakin's literary executor. He commented:
WorkWalnut Tree Farm and its surroundings were the subject of two BBC Radio 4 documentaries, The House and The Garden, that he produced. A further documentary, Cigarette on the Waveney, covered the subject of a canoe trip down the nearby River Waveney. He also made several television documentary films covering subjects as diverse as rock music, Essex, Hank Wangford, allotments and the world of horse racing. Deakin appears in The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane, whose TV documentary The Wild Places of Essex includes scenes shot at Walnut Tree Farm. {{Quote box |width=300px |align=right |quoted=true |bgcolor=#FFFFF0 |salign=right|quote = A wind that's already slipped in and out of several gardens is churning the blue light of summer waking sparrow, swift and starling in my roof – 'Your roof is infested with birds and mice' said the chartered surveyor with no trace of pleasure at having made such a discovery in the Deakin archive[3]}} In 1999, Deakin's acclaimed book Waterlog was published by Chatto and Windus.[3] Inspired in part by the short story The Swimmer by John Cheever,[4] it describes his experiences of 'wild swimming' in Britain's rivers and lakes and advocates open access to the countryside and waterways. The book also inspired a one-hour BBC Four documentary film Wild Swimming, in August 2010, presented by the anatomist Alice Roberts. The film stated that he was the source for the voice of the swimmer in Alice Oswald's 48-page poem Dart, about the River Dart in Devon.[5] Deakin's book Wildwood appeared posthumously in 2007. It describes a series of journeys across the globe that Deakin made to meet people whose lives are intimately connected to trees and wood. In November 2008, Notes from Walnut Tree Farm was published to high critical appraisal. Suffolk critic and novelist Terence Blacker co-edited a collection of writing taken from Deakin's personal notebooks, largely focused on the wildlife and ecology of the area around his farmhouse.[6] Deakin was a founder director of the arts and environmental charity Common Ground in 1982. Among his environmental causes, he worked to preserve woodland, ancient rights of way and coppicing techniques of Suffolk hedgerow. References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1526902/Roger-Deakin.html Obituary from The Telegraph] 2. ^[https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/aug/29/guardianobituaries.environment Obituary, The Guardian] 29 August 2006 3. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/may/08/archive-environmentalist-roger-deakin-university?INTCMP=SRCH|title= Archives of environmentalist Roger Deakin given to university|date= 8 May 2010|publisher=Guardian |accessdate=19 September 2012}} 4. ^Subsequently made into a film starring Burt Lancaster. 5. ^Wild Swimming BBC site retrieved 13 November 2013. 6. ^[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/nov/16/biography-memoir-naturalist-deakin-review "Hymn to land and freedom" The Guardian 16 November 2008] }} Bibliography
| title = Waterlog: A Swimmer's Journey Through Britain | author = Roger Deakin | year = 1999 | publisher = Chatto and Windus | isbn = 0-7011-6652-5
| title = Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees | author = Roger Deakin | year = 2007 | publisher = Hamish Hamilton Ltd | isbn = 0-241-14184-2
| title = Notes From Walnut Tree Farm | author = Roger Deakin | year = 2008 | publisher = Hamish Hamilton Ltd | isbn = 0-241-14420-5 }}
| title = Caught by the River: a collection of words on water | editor = Jeff Barrett | year = 2009 | isbn = 978-1-84403-667-7 }} External links
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