Now in its second edition with a new introduction by Helen Macdonald, a unique, beautiful, comprehensive cultural and social study, species by species, of all the birds in Britain. A companion volume to Flora Britannica and Bugs Britannica
Richard Mabey (Author)
Richard Mabey is the father of modern nature writing in the UK.
Since 1972 he has written some forty influential books, including
the prize-winning Nature Cure, Gilbert White- a Biography, and
Flora Britannica. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
and Vice-President of the Open Spaces Society.
He spent the first half of his life amongst the Chiltern
beechwoods, and now lives in Norfolk in a house surrounded by ash
trees.
Mark Cocker (Author)
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.
Helen Macdonald (Introducer)
Helen Macdonald is a writer, poet, naturalist and historian of
science. Their books include H is for Hawk, which won many prizes
including the Costa Book of the Year and the Samuel Johnson Prize
for Non-Fiction, and the Sunday Times bestselling Vesper Flights.
They live in Suffolk with their two parrots.
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