Ebook {Epub PDF} Crow Country by Mark Cocker

Crow Country ebook By Mark Cocker. Read a Sample. Sign up to save your library. With an OverDrive account, you can save your favorite libraries for at-a-glance information about availability. Find out more about OverDrive accounts. Save Not today. Format. ebook. ISBN. Author. Mark Cocker. Publisher. Naturalist Mark Cocker moved into a new house outside Norwich in Norfolk, England and became fascinated with the rooks that roost in huge numbers in the countryside around him. Taking one of the commonest, ugliest and noisiest birds in the British Isles he has come to build on centuries of study and understand a little more about the society that these birds form and how they have come to fascinate /5. Crow Country by Cocker, Mark and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at www.doorway.ru

Crow Country is not just a bird book, and nor is it a book just for bird lovers. The writing is unique. For a reader who comes to it without fixed expectations it will open the eyes and the mind. If what you want are facts and photos of birds, well Mark Cocker has produced those too. But for me Crow Country is his masterpiece. Crow Country. 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. From the moment he watched the multitudes blossom as a mysterious dark flower above the night woods, these gloriously commonplace birds were unsheathed. Mark Cocker is an author, naturalist and environmental activist whose eleven books include works of biography, history, literary criticism and memoir. His book Crow Country was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize in and won the New Angle.

Mark Cocker is the author of Crow Country ( avg rating, ratings, 59 reviews, published ), Claxton ( avg rating, ratings, 27 reviews. Naturalist Mark Cocker moved into a new house outside Norwich in Norfolk, England and became fascinated with the rooks that roost in huge numbers in the countryside around him. Taking one of the commonest, ugliest and noisiest birds in the British Isles he has come to build on centuries of study and understand a little more about the society that these birds form and how they have come to fascinate so many before him. 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. From the moment he watched.