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  <name><![CDATA[Roger Deakin]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Roger Stuart Deakin was an English writer, documentary-maker and environmentalist.

Educated at Haberdashers' Aske's and Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he read English, 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 from a brain tumour, first diagnosed only four months before 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. Wildwood, appeared posthumously in 2007 and in November 2008, Notes from Walnut Tree Farm - a collection of writing taken from his personal notebooks was published to high critical appraisal.]]></about>    <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>Watford</hometown>  <born_at>02/11/1943</born_at>  <died_at>08/19/2006</died_at>  
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Waterlog: A Swimmer's Journey Through Britain]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Notes from Walnut Tree Farm]]></title>
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