but a good life - all the way to the very end
Date of Publication: 26/12/2013
The first comprehensive collection of the letters of one of the most successful American songwriters of the twentieth century
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is one of the most remarkable figures ever to rule a European super-state
The swimmer Swimming but a good life -Roger Deakin, author of the immortal 'Waterlog' and 'Wildwood,' was a man of unusually many parts. A born writer who nonetheless took decades to write his first book, Roger was also variously and sometimes simultaneously maverick ad man, seller of stripped pine furniture on the Portobello Road, cider maker, teacher, environmentalist, music promoter, and filmmaker. But above all he was the restorer of ancient Walnut Tree Farm in Suffolk, the heartland