Mark Cocker: One Midsummer's Day

Cover: 9781787332799 | One Midsummer's Day | Swifts and the Story of Life on Earth | Cocker

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It takes a whole universe to make one small black birdThe bestselling author of Crow Country and writer of the Guardian's Country Diary tells the story of all life on Earth through a single day spent in the company of swifts'A jewel of a book'CAROLINE LUCAS MP'One of our greatest living naturalists'SPECTATORSwifts are among the most extraordinary of all birds. Their migrations span continents and their twelve-week stopover, when they pause to breed in European rooftops, is the very definition of summer. They may nest in our homes but much about their lives passes over our heads. No birds are more wreathed in mystery. Captivated, Mark Cocker sets out to capture their essence. Over the course of one day in midsummer he devotes himself to his beloved black birds as they spiral overhead. Yet this is also a book about so much more. Swifts are a prism through which Cocker explores the profound interconnections of the whole biosphere. From the deep-sea thermal vents where life was born to the 15 million degrees at the core of our Sun, he shows that life is a singular and glorious continuum. These birds without borders are a perfect symbol to express the unity of the living planet. But they also illuminate how no creature, least of all ourselves, can be said to be alive in isolation. We are all inextricably connected. Drawing deeply on science, history, literature and a lifetime of close observation, One Midsummer's Day is a dazzling and wide-ranging celebration of all life on Earth by one of our greatest nature writers.

Über den Autor

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.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2023
Fachbereich:	Ökologie
Genre:	Biologie
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium:	Buch
Inhalt:	Gebunden
ISBN-13:	9781787332799
ISBN-10:	1787332799
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Cocker, Mark
Hersteller:	Vintage Publishing
Maße:	237 x 161 x 34 mm
Von/Mit:	Mark Cocker
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.06.2023
Gewicht:	0,558 kg

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