Gender, race, climate and the New Nature Writing

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New Nature Writing has become a publishing phenomenon, from Roger Deakin to Robert Macfarlane. Will diverse new voices help it adapt to the climate crisis?
Twenty years ago, in the last year of the old millennium, a book about “wild swimming” became a surprise bestseller.
Subtitled A Swimmer’s Journey Through Britain, Waterlog combined the classic quest narrative with a new way of writing about the natural world, the product of author Roger Deakin’s lifelong passions for swimming and nature. Continue reading...

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