Crow Country

Mark Cocker (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2008
Vintage (Verlag)
978-0-09-948508-7 (ISBN)

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One night Mark Cocker followed the roiling, deafening flock of rooks and jackdaws which regularly passed over his Norfolk home on their way to roost in the Yare valley. From the moment he watched the multitudes blossom as a mysterious dark flower above the night woods, these gloriously commonplace birds were unsheathed entirely from their ordinariness. They became for Cocker a fixation and a way of life.

Cocker goes in search of them, journeying from the cavernous, deadened heartland of South England to the hills of Dumfriesshire, experiencing spectacular failures alongside magical successes and epiphanies. Step by step he uncovers the complexities of the birds' inner lives, the unforeseen richness hidden in the raucous crow song he calls 'our landscape made audible'.

Crow Country is a prose poem in a long tradition of English pastoral writing. It is also a reminder that 'Crow Country' is not 'ours': it is a landscape which we cohabit with thousands of other species, and these richly complex fellowships cannot be valued too highly.

One Midsummer's Day by Mark Cocker coming in June 2023.

Mark Cocker is an author and naturalist whose fourteen books include works of biography, history, literary criticism and memoir. His book Crow Country was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2008 and won the New Angle Prize for Literature in 2009. With the photographer David Tipling he published Birds and People in 2013, a massive survey described by the Times Literary Supplement as 'a major literary event as well as an ornithological one.' Our Place: Can We Save Britain's Wildlife Before It Is Too Late? was described by the Sunday Times as 'impassioned, expert and always beautifully written ... a sobering and magnificent work.' A Claxton Diary won the East Anglian Book of the Year Award in 2019, and his most recent book, One Midsummer's Day was shortlisted for the Richard Jefferies Award 2023.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	7.8.2008
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 197 mm
Gewicht	168 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer
ISBN-10	0-09-948508-7 / 0099485087
ISBN-13	978-0-09-948508-7 / 9780099485087
Zustand	Neuware