Hugh Thomson

Roger Deakin – at ease in the countryside as a poacher with deep pockets

Patrick Barkham pays tribute to the much-missed nature writer, whose core response to the call of the wild animated everything he did

Roger Deakin. [Photograph by Sheila Rock/Bridgeman Images]
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