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A Claxton Diary by Cocker, Mark
Category: Nature
Another beautiful, revelatory country diary from one of the best nature writers in Britain. Another beautiful, revelatory country diary from one of the best nature writers in Britain. 'If you've never read Mark Cocker, then you must. His style is sharp, selfless, and wonderfully evocative, his knowled ...Show more
A Claxton Diary - Further Field Notes from a Small Planet by Mark Cocker
Category: Nature
For seventeen years, as part of his daily writerly routine, the author and naturalist Mark Cocker has taken a two-mile walk down to the river from his cottage on the edge of the Norfolk Broads National Park. Over the course of those 10,000 daily paces he has learnt the art of patience to observe a butte ...Show more
Claxton by Mark Cocker
Category: Nature
This book was shortlisted for the 2014 Thwaites Wainwright Prize. "After Mark Cocker's glorious book, you will never look at a blackberry bush the same way again." (Philip Hoare, New Statesman). In a single twelve-month cycle of daily writings Mark Cocker explores his relationship to the East Anglian la ...Show more
Crow Country by Mark Cocker
Category: Nature
Rooks and jackdaws are both members of the same bird family. To ornithologists the group is known as the corvids, to the layperson they are 'crows'. But to the Mark Cocker these two species have become a fixation and a way of life. When he moved with his family to a rundown cottage in the Norfolk Broads ...Show more
Crow Country A Meditation on Birds, Landscape and Nature by Mark Cocker
Category: Nature | Series: Vintage Classic Birds and Bees Ser.
The Birds and the Bees series was designed for Vintage Classics by Timorous Beasties, the Scottish studio famous for their designs inspired by the natural world. One night Mark Cocker followed the roiling, deafening flock of rooks and jackdaws which regularly passed over his Norfolk home on their way to ...Show more
One Midsummer's Day: Swifts and the Story of Life on Earth by Mark Cocker
Category: Science
It takes a whole universe to make one small black birdThe bestselling author of Crow Country and writer of The Guardian's Country Diary tells the story of all life on Earth through a single day spent in the company of swifts.'A jewel of a book' Caroline Lucas MPSwifts are among the most extraordinary of ...Show more
Our Place: Can We Save Britain's Wildlife Before It Is Too Late? by Cocker Mark
Category: Nature
Our Place : Can We Save British Nature Before It Is Too Late? by Mark Cocker
Category: Nature
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