Birders - Hardcover

Cocker, Mark

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ISBN 10: 0224060023 ISBN 13: 9780224060028

Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 2001

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About the Author:

Mark Cocker is an author, naturalist and environmental activist whose ten 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'.

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"At last! An up to date examination of what makes birders tick. And about time too! Wonderfully written" * Bill Oddie * "A natural history version of Fever Pitch... Reading it may even make you want to try out this strangely addictive past time for yourself" * Guardian * "Intensely readable, very funny and highly enlightening" * New Scientist * "With a mixture of well-chosen anecdotes and self-deprecating humour, Cocker succeeds in making event he most hardened cynic appreciate his passion. Birders is a stylish work in a long tradition of fine writing on the subject" * Guardian * "The best account yet of the "tribe" and its wonderful, unworldly passions" * The Times *

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