An English Scribbly Bark

摘要

Roger deakin, who died in 2006, played a large part in the current revival of writing about nature and landscape in Britain. He did not publish much during his life-a book about trees and their spiritual significance called "Wildwood", and another about swimming in rivers and ponds, "Waterlog". Yet those two slim books managed to draw the attention of readers towards things that were either new or neglected: the spell that the natural world can cast on the urban imagination; the teeming variety of the modest English countryside and the oddly unexplored landscape of Deakin's home territory, that part of England known as East Anglia.