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To be astonished by nature, look no further than Claxton

A review of Claxton: Field Notes from a Small Planet, by Mark Cocker. This journal could do with some editing, though

11 October 2014

9:00 AM

11 October 2014

9:00 AM

Claxton: Field Notes from a Small Planet Mark Cocker

Cape, pp.238, £14.99

Mark Cocker is the naturalist writer of the moment, with birds his special subject. His previous book, Birds and People, was a tour de force, taking the birds of the entire world as its subject. Craig Brown described it as ‘the sort of masterpiece that comes along only once or twice a decade’.

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