A CLAXTON DIARY Further Field Notes from a Small Planet

Cocker (Mark)

ISBN 10: 1787331768 / ISBN 13: 9781787331761

Published by Jonathan Cape, London, 2019

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ix, 209pp, each month illustrated with a black & white image, pages clean and crisp, egg-yolk yellow endpapers, black cloth with copper spine lettering, dust jacket pristine. NEW BOOK. Size: 8.75 X 5.5 Inches.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A CLAXTON DIARY Further Field Notes from a Small Planet
• Publisher: Jonathan Cape, London
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1787331768
• ISBN 13: 9781787331761
• Binding: Black Cloth
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: New Book
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Book Type: Natural History

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Synopsis

**WINNER OF THE EAST ANGLIAN BOOK AWARDS 2019**

Discover this beautiful, revelatory country diary from one of the best nature writers in Britain.

For seventeen years, as part of his daily writerly routine, the author and naturalist Mark Cocker has taken a two-mile walk down to the river from his cottage on the edge of the Norfolk Broads National Park. Over the course of those 10,000 daily paces he has learnt the art of patience to observe a butterfly, a bird, flower, bee, deer, otter or fly and to take pleasure in all the other inhabitants of his parish, no matter how seemingly insignificant.

In turn, these encounters became literary epiphanies that are now a widely celebrated part of his work. In A Claxton Diary he has gathered some of the finest short essays that he has ever written on wildlife. They range over almost everything he can see, touch or smell, from the minute to the cosmic, from a strange micromoth called yellow-barred longhorn to that fiercest of winter storms the ‘Beast from the East’.

From the marvellous to the macabre, Cocker tries to capture nature without flinching and in its entirety. Above all he reminds us that we are all just members of one miraculous family, fashioned from sunlight and the dust from old stars.

‘Exquisite essential reading’ BBC Wildlife

‘A spellbinding nature diary that’s up there with the greatest’ Mail on Sunday

About the 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.