Category: Nature

Crow Country: A Meditation on Birds, Landscape and Nature—Mark Cocker

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Published by Vintage Press, 2008, 224 pages. There is something primeval about crows and ravens, which is probably why they often get a bad rap in fiction. They are often portrayed as the harbingers of bad tidings and connected in some way to evil. And when we are not seeing them as some sort of …

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H is for Hawk: Helen McDonald

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Published by Grove Press / Vintage, 2014, 320 pages. A hawk stares out from the cover of this book: it is hard to turn away from the fierce intensity of its gaze. And intense, too, is how I would describe this book, which is about grief, trauma and the relationship between humans and goshawks. When …

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