Mark Cocker

Crow Country

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Vintage Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. August 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 129mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 164g
• ISBN-13: 9780099485087
• ISBN-10: 0099485087
• Artikelnr.: 23603186

Autorenporträt

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.