The Curious Life of the Cuckoo
$25.04
- Hardcover
112 pages
- Release Date
17 June 2025
Summary
Our greatest nature writer explores the myths, legends, history, and hidden world of one of our most secretive and masterfully duplicitous animals.
Is there any bird more mysterious than the cuckoo? It is invariably heard, and not seen. And if seen, it is mistaken for a sharp-winged hawk. The female cuckoo, by a trick that borders on alchemy, is able to disguise its egg as another’s. In Greek myth, the god Zeus assumed the form of a cuckoo to seduce Hera.
But we forgive the cu…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780857526410 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0857526413 |
| Author: | John Lewis-Stempel |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Doubleday |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 112 |
| Release Date: | 17 June 2025 |
| Weight: | 198g |
| Dimensions: | 205mm x 133mm x 13mm |
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About The Author
John Lewis-Stempel
John Lewis-Stempel is a farmer and ‘Britain’s finest living nature writer’ (The Times). His books include the Sunday Times bestsellers Woodston, The Running Hare and The Wood. He is the only person to have won the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing twice, with Meadowland and Where Poppies Blow. In 2016 he was named Magazine Columnist of the Year for his column in Country Life. He farms cattle, sheep, pigs and poultry. Traditionally.
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