Birds Britannica by Mark Cocker - ISBN: 9781784743789
Hardcover
Britain’s birds: a cultural history woven with lore and love.

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  • Hardcover

    528 pages

  • Release Date

    5 March 2020

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Summary

Now in its second edition with a new introduction by Helen Macdonald, a unique, beautiful, comprehensive cultural and social study, species by species, of all the birds in Britain. A companion volume to Flora Britannica and Bugs Britannica

The British love their birds, which are inextricably entwined with every aspect of their island life. British customs, more than 1,000 years of English literature, the very fabric of society, even the landscape itself, have all been enhanced by the …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781784743789
ISBN-10:178474378X
Author:Mark Cocker, Richard Mabey, Helen Macdonald
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Imprint:Chatto & Windus
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:528
Release Date:5 March 2020
Weight:2.39kg
Dimensions:290mm x 225mm x 35mm
About The Author

Mark Cocker

Richard Mabey (Author)

Richard Mabey is considered the father of modern nature writing in the UK. Since 1972, he has authored around forty influential books, including the prize-winning Nature Cure, Gilbert White - a Biography, and Flora Britannica. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Vice-President of the Open Spaces Society.

He spent the first half of his life in the Chiltern beechwoods and now resides in Norfolk, in a house surrounded by ash trees.

Mark Cocker (Author)

Mark Cocker is an author and naturalist. His fourteen books encompass biography, history, literary criticism, and memoir. Crow Country was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2008 and won the New Angle Prize for Literature in 2009. 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 in 2023.

Helen Macdonald (Introducer)

Helen Macdonald is a writer, poet, naturalist, and historian of science. Her books include H is for Hawk, which received numerous awards, including the Costa Book of the Year and the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, and the Sunday Times bestselling Vesper Flights. They live in Suffolk with their two parrots.

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