Roger Deakin was an English writer and celebrated environmentalist. Waterlog, the only book he published in his lifetime, became a UK bestseller, and founded the wild swimming movement. He also authored two other acclaimed works of nonfiction: Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees and Notes From Walnut Tree Farm. Deakin lived in Suffolk, England, and died there in 2006.
Bonnie Tsui is a journalist and the author of
Why We Swim, a
New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, a
TIME Magazine Must-Read Book of 2020, an NPR Best Book of 2020, and a
Los Angeles Times and
Boston Globe bestseller. It is currently being translated into six languages. Her first children's book,
Sarah and the Big Wave, about the first woman to surf Mavericks, will be published in May 2021. She lives, swims, and surfs in the Bay Area.
Robert Macfarlane’s prize-winning and best-selling books include
Mountains of the Mind,
The Old Ways,
Landmarks, and, with Jackie Morris,
The Lost Words. He lives in Cambridge, England, where he is a Fellow of the University of Cambridge.
