Awards

• Long-listed for New Angle Prize for Literature 2015
• Long-listed for New Angle Prize for Literature 2015.
• Long-listed for The New Angle Prize 2015 (UK)
• Short-listed for East Anglian Book Award for General Non-fiction 2015 (UK)
• Short-listed for Thwaites Wainwright Prize 2015 (UK)
• Short-listed for Wainwright Prize 2015
• Shortlisted for Thwaites Wainwright Prize 2015.
• Shortlisted for Wainwright Prize 2015.

Overview

After the massive, world-spanning, unanimously acclaimed Birds and People Mark Cocker looks in fascinating detail at his home parish in Norfolk and its wildlife 'After Mark Cocker's glorious book, you will never look at a blackberry bush the same way again.' Philip Hoare, New Statesman In 2001 Mark Cocker moved to Claxton, a small village in Norfolk. In a series of daily writings spanning the course of a year he explores his relationship to the landscape he lives in, to nature and to all the living things around him - the birds, plants, trees, mammals, hoverflies, moths, butterflies, bush crickets, grasshoppers, ants and bumblebees. Passionate, astonishing and inspiring, this book is a celebration of the wonder that lies in our everyday experience. Shortlisted for the Royal Society of Biology Book Award, the Jarrold East Anglian Book Awards, the New Angle Prize and theThwaites Wainwright Prize

Full Product Details

Author:   Mark Cocker
Publisher:   Vintage Publishing
Imprint:   Vintage
Dimensions:   Width: 12.90cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 19.70cm
Weight:   0.181kg
ISBN:  

9780099593478

ISBN 10:   0099593475
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   01 October 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order  
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Reviews

After Mark Cocker's glorious book, you will never look at a blackberry bush the same way again. -- Philip Hoare New Statesman If your eye has ever been caught by a moth, owl, jay or ash tree, Claxton has something new to tell about it, about Britain, and about life - which is an infinite compilation of exquisite detail. -- Horatio Clare, 5 stars Daily Telegraph The book is spectacular... Brilliant natural-history writing. -- Jonathan Wright Herald At once charming and unsentimental, these short pieces educate and delight. -- Stephanie Cross, 5 stars Lady Cocker is a sharp-eyed, knowledgeable and accessible writer... Makes one look again at the world outdoors with renewed awe and wonder. -- Ben East Metro

Author Information

Mark Cocker is an author and naturalist whose thirteen 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.' His most recent book, A Claxton Diary, won the East Anglian Book of the Year Award in 2019.

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