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Title: CLAXTON
FIELD NOTES FROM A SMALL PLANET
By: Mark Cocker
Format: Hardback

List price: £14.99


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ISBN 10: 0224099655
ISBN 13: 9780224099653
Publisher: VINTAGE PUBLISHING
Pub. date: 2 October, 2014
Pages: 256
Description: Describes all the wildlife in the village - not just birds, but plants, trees, mammals, hoverflies, moths, butterflies, bush crickets, grasshoppers, ants and bumblebees. This book explores how these other species are as essential to our sense of genuine well-being and to our feelings of rootedness as any other kind of fellowship.
Synopsis: This book was short-listed for the 2014 Thwaites Wainwright Prize. It was short-listed for the 2014 New Angle Prize. It was also short-listed for the 2015 Society of Biology Book Award. "After Mark Cocker's glorious book, you will never look at a blackberry bush the same way again." (Philip Hoare, New Statesman). In a single twelve-month cycle of daily writings Mark Cocker explores his relationship to the East Anglian landscape, to nature and to all the living things around him. The separate entries are characterised by close observation, depth of experience, and a profound awareness of seasonal change, both within in each distinct year and, more alarmingly, over the longer period, as a result of the changing climate. The writing is concise, magical, inspiring. Cocker describes all the wildlife in the village - not just birds, but plants, trees, mammals, hoverflies, moths, butterflies, bush crickets, grasshoppers, ants and bumblebees. The book explores how these other species are as essential to our sense of genuine well-being and to our feelings of rootedness as any other kind of fellowship.With a celebration of the wonder that lies in our everyday experience, Cocker's book emphasises how Claxton is as much a state of mind as it is a place. Above all else, it is a manifesto for the central importance of the local in all human activity.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Jonathan Cape Ltd
Prizes: Short-listed for Wainwright Prize 2015 Long-listed for New Angle Prize for Literature 2015
Returns: Returnable
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