Claxton Mark Cocker

Name: Claxton By Mark Cocker
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Summary

'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.

Claxton Summary

Claxton: Field Notes from a Small Planet by Mark Cocker

'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

Claxton Reviews

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 *

About Mark Cocker

Mark Cocker is an author, naturalist and environmental activist whose eleven 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 Anglia Book Award in 2019.

Additional information

Sku

GOR006977251

ISBN 13

9780099593478

ISBN 10

0099593475

Title

Claxton: Field Notes from a Small Planet by Mark Cocker

Author

Mark Cocker

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Vintage Publishing

Year published

2015-10-01

Number of pages

256

Prizes

Short-listed for Thwaites Wainwright Prize 2015 (UK) Short-listed for East Anglian Book Award for General Non-fiction 2015 (UK) Long-listed for The New Angle Prize 2015 (UK)

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Note

This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us