CH 4 the woods and the water pg 95
Roger Deakin wrote books about nature and exploring in forests and water what not. He's dead now, 2006. Before he died he swam in wild water all around the UK. Out author, Robert has always thought of water as an annoyance. Something to get around and avoid. But Roger inspired him to see it as something to be explored. So He's swimming all over the UK as well. On one such adventure he ran into this lady asking annoying questions and it turns out she was doing the same thing cause she was similarly inspired by Roger and had been listening to one of his audio books on her way to the loch.
Roger is also into forests. He built himself a log cabin. He calls trees rivers of sap, uniting his joy of water and trees. He's gone all around the world exploring different forests and seeing how different trees are in different places. Lots of details for different trees.
I wrote more stuff here and then the ap died, and I'm angry about it so I'm not gonna write it all over again. Also I ate some pizza and forgot to wash my hands and left a spot of grease on the book and I feel bad about that too. Anyway, Roger dies, leaves Robert as his literary guardian. Roger had TONS of stuff he had written or that was written to him.
glossary 3 waterlands pg 117
There's words from Welsch, Gaelic, Old English, Manx, East Anglia, abhain gaelic, welsh, Irish, Cumbria, Scots, North Sea coast, poetic, Essex, Yorkshire, Northhamptonshire, Galloway, Herefordshire, Kent, ecological, Shetland, Fenland, Lancashire, West Cornwall, geographical, Suffolk, Sussex, Cotswalds, Shropshire, Devon, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, meteorological, Doric, Exmoor, Shropshire, Cornwall, Nautical, Midlands and Glourcestershire
There's sections dedicated to moving water, pools, ponds and lakes, rain and storm, riverbed, riverbank, springs and wells, swimming and splashing, Water's surface and Wetlands.
chapter 5 hunting life page 139
This one's all about bird watching. It sounds pretty baller. I'm thinking maybe I should get into it. Especially big hunting birds like hawks and falcons. John Alec Baker wrote a book about falcons called peragrin cause they're the coolest ones I guess. I remember as a kid there was some book they made us read that was about a boy in the woods with a peragrine falcon.
They talk about falcons dying in droves in the sixties due to the use of DDT and other such pesticides. A musician that was a big fan of the the book Peragrin died of drugs at the ripe ole age of 23. People reading books like this are inspired to do something about the problems.
Glossary 4 coastlands page 163
ocean boardering words from Manx, Gaelic, Galloway, Welsch, geographical, scots, east anglia, Shetland, nautical, SE England, SW England, Kent, Cornwall, Military, North Sea Coast, reventment conserveration, Hydrological, Lancashire, suffolk, Orkney, anglo-romani, poetic, sussex, geological, jersey norman, conservation and old english
different sections include Bays, Channels and Inlets / Cliffs, Headlands and Defenses / Currents, Waves and Tides / fishing and boats / lights, hazes, mists and fogs / the sea / shores and strands
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