United Kingdom: Archives of environmentalist Roger Deakin given to university

Guardian: One of the most eccentric literary archives ever assembled, a treasury of writings on ancient trees, weedy ponds, rusting cars, sleepy cats, skylarks, films and photographs, an old pair of swimming trunks and a bundle of damp stained manuscript still smelling strongly of the fish it once wrapped, has been presented to the University of East Anglia. It represents the life's work of Roger Deakin, a maverick who died of brain cancer in 2006 aged 63, and is now seen as a pioneer of the ......

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