Roger Deakin
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Roger Stuart Deakin (born in February 11, 1943 in Watford, Hertfordshire, died August 19, 2006 in Mellis, Suffolk) was a writer, documentary-maker and environmentalist.
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. It describes his experiences of 'wild swimming', swimming in Britain's rivers and lakes and is both a shrewd and potent campaigning work and poetic odyssey.
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- Roger Deakin (1999). Waterlog: A Swimmer's Journey Through Britain. Chatto and Windus. ISBN 0701166525.
