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The Cuckoo's Lea: The Forgotten History of Birds and Place – SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING - Couverture rigide

Warren, Michael J.

 
9781399412070: The Cuckoo's Lea: The Forgotten History of Birds and Place – SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING
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ISBN 10 : 1399412078 ISBN 13 : 9781399412070
Editeur : Bloomsbury Wildlife, 2025

Synopsis

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING
A BBC WILDLIFE BEST BOOK OF 2025

'Magical . No journey in Britain will be quite the same again.' The Guardian

Birds have long inspired our emotional and imaginative connections to physical environments, but where did it all begin?

Hidden in the names of English towns and villages, in copses, fields, lanes and hills, are the ghostly traces of birds conjuring powerful identities for people in ancient landscapes. What are their stories and secrets? How did people encounter birds over a thousand years ago?

In The Cuckoo's Lea, Michael J. Warren sets out on the trail of these ghosts. Captivated and guided by the secrets of place names, he finds their stories entangled with his own explorations of places through birds all across England. The past is hauntingly and movingly present on timeless marshes where curlews cry, where goshawks are breeding again for the first time in centuries, through silent cuckoo-woods lost under concrete sprawl, in the winter roosts of corvids and an owl village that vanished centuries ago.

Weaving together early literature, history and ornithology, this book takes readers on a journey far into the past to contemplate the nature of place and to discover a fascinating heritage that matters deeply to us now when so many places and their birds are threatened or already gone.

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À propos de l'auteur

Michael J. Warren is an author, medievalist and naturalist. He teaches English in Chelmsford, was honorary research fellow at Birkbeck College, chair of the steering group for New Networks for Nature, and is currently a trustee for Curlew Action. Michael curates The Birds and Place Project, a website devoted to collecting and recording the birds of English place names.

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Éditeur
Bloomsbury Wildlife
Date d'édition
2025
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1399412078
ISBN 13 
9781399412070
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
304
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