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Birders: Tales of a Tribe

Autor Mark Cocker
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 ian 2003
For thirty years, journalist Mark Cocker has been a member of a community of fanatics who sacrifice most of their spare time, a good deal of money, sometimes their chances of a partner or family, even their lives, to watch birds. In Birders, Cocker not only introduces lay-readers to the venerable art of birding but shares some of the incredible tales previously circulated only among "the loop," involving unforgettable -- and sometimes deadly -- encounters with everything from pipits, puffins, and plovers to border-patrol officers and horseback bandits. And then there is his personal journey, which began when he discovered a nest of pigeon eggs in his family attic and soon led to the fetishism of his binoculars (or rather, "bins").
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ISBN-13: 9780802139962
ISBN-10: 0802139965
Pagini: 230
Dimensiuni: 141 x 213 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Ediția:First Trade Paper Edition
Editura: Grove Atlantic

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Journalist Cocker is a member of a community of fanatics who watch birds. Now he offers what "The Baltimore Sun" calls "the most graceful, respectful and technically rich book on [this] fascination."

Notă biografică

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.