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Claxton: Field Notes from a Small Planet
Mark Cocker
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Description for Claxton: Field Notes from a Small Planet
paperback. In 2001 the author moved to Claxton, a small village in Norfolk. In a series of daily writings spanning the course of a year he explores his relationship to the landscape he lives in, to nature and to all the living things around him. This book is a celebration of the wonder that lies in our everyday experience. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKEAN; WNC; WND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 214.
'After Mark Cocker’s glorious book, you will never look at a blackberry bush the same way again.'
Philip Hoare, New Statesman
In 2001 Mark Cocker moved to Claxton, a small village in Norfolk. In a series of daily writings spanning the course of a year he explores his relationship to the landscape he lives in, to nature and to all the living things around him - the birds, plants, trees, mammals, hoverflies, moths, butterflies, bush crickets, grasshoppers, ants and bumblebees. Passionate, astonishing and inspiring, this book is a celebration of the wonder that lies in our everyday experience.
Shortlisted for the Royal Society of Biology Book Award, the Jarrold East Anglian Book Awards, the New Angle Prize and theThwaites Wainwright Prize
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099593478
SKU
V9780099593478
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-13
About Mark Cocker
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.
Reviews for Claxton: Field Notes from a Small Planet
After Mark Cocker’s glorious book, you will never look at a blackberry bush the same way again.
Philip Hoare
New Statesman
A nature journal full of beautiful, delicate observation
Guardian
A beautifully-written account of one man’s passion for the natural world
Daily Mail
If your eye has ever been caught by a moth, owl, jay or ash tree, Claxton has something new to tell about it, about Britain, and about life – which is an infinite compilation of exquisite detail.
Horatio Clare, 5 stars
Daily Telegraph
To be astonished by nature, look no further than Claxton.
Spectator
Cocker’s profound knowledge, uncanny ability to observe and heartliftingly exact prose make Claxton one of those books that transforms the way you see your own home parish.
Melissa Harrison
The Times
The book is spectacular… Brilliant natural-history writing.
Jonathan Wright
Herald
Philip Hoare
New Statesman
A nature journal full of beautiful, delicate observation
Guardian
A beautifully-written account of one man’s passion for the natural world
Daily Mail
If your eye has ever been caught by a moth, owl, jay or ash tree, Claxton has something new to tell about it, about Britain, and about life – which is an infinite compilation of exquisite detail.
Horatio Clare, 5 stars
Daily Telegraph
To be astonished by nature, look no further than Claxton.
Spectator
Cocker’s profound knowledge, uncanny ability to observe and heartliftingly exact prose make Claxton one of those books that transforms the way you see your own home parish.
Melissa Harrison
The Times
The book is spectacular… Brilliant natural-history writing.
Jonathan Wright
Herald