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Birds & People, by Mark Cocker - review

3 August 2013

9:00 AM

3 August 2013

9:00 AM

Birds & People Mark Cocker

Jonathan Cape, pp.592, £40

‘A world without birds would lay waste the human heart,’ writes Mark Cocker. Following his Birds Britannica and prize-winning Crow Country, in Birds & People he embraces the planet, with the help of the wildlife photographer, David Tipling, and the ‘650 contributors from 81 countries’ to whom the book is dedicated.

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