Mark Cocker

Broschiertes Buch

Birders

Beschreibung

Since 1972 Mark Cocker has been a member of a community of obsessional people, almost all male, who sacrifice most of their spare time, a good deal of money, sometimes their chances of a partner or family, even occasionally their lives, to watch birds.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Vintage Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 201mm x 129mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 172g
• ISBN-13: 9780099289548
• ISBN-10: 0099289547
• Artikelnr.: 22043111