The Cuckoo's Lea
The Forgotten History of Birds and Place
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The Cuckoo's Lea
Letto da:
John Sackville
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Letto da:
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John Sackville
Birds have long inspired our emotional and imaginative connections to physical environments, but where did it all begin?
Hidden in the names of English towns and villages, in copses, fields, lanes and hills, are the ghostly traces of birds conjuring powerful identities for people in ancient landscapes. What are their stories and secrets? How did people encounter birds over a thousand years ago?
In The Cuckoo’s Lea, Michael J. Warren sets out on the trail of these ghosts. Captivated and guided by the secrets of place names, he finds their stories entangled with his own explorations of places through birds all across England. The past is hauntingly and movingly present on timeless marshes where curlews cry, where goshawks are breeding again for the first time in centuries, through silent cuckoo-woods lost under concrete sprawl, in the winter roosts of corvids and an owl village that vanished centuries ago.
Weaving together early literature, history and ornithology, this book takes readers on a journey far into the past to contemplate the nature of place and to discover a fascinating heritage that matters deeply to us now when so many places and their birds are threatened or already gone.©2025 Michael J. Warren (P)2025 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Magical … No journey in Britain will be quite the same again.
I loved this beguiling exploration of how birds have long inspired emotional and imaginative human connections to physical places.
Fascinating and meticulously researched.
This is a phenomenal book that brings the past to life and makes you see landscapes anew.
Fascinating and absorbing.
A poetic blend of natural history, etymology and memoir.
Scholarly, fresh, exquisitely crafted and breathtakingly, heart-achingly beautiful, The Cuckoo’s Lea weaves the human and natural history of England into a tapestry that will transform your relationship with place. Michael Warren has made a book I’ll love forever.
One of the most unique works of nature writing in recent years, original in its ambition and successful in its execution. Michael Warren has written an exhilarating exploration of birds and words.
Utterly beguiling, deeply poignant and revelatory, a cartographic overlay of language and land and our place in nature. A book with a pertinent and radical message from the past – that nature is our house, our dwelling-place and neighbourhood, from where we can chart a new course, with a very old compass.
The best statement for the importance of the medieval I’ve ever read. A wonderful book.
A brilliant blend of birds, places, history and language - all held together with a deft personal touch - and a surprise on every page.
This is a book filled with calls and cries, booming, twittering, shrieking, singing – a joyful affirmation of life, revealed through quiet observation and reflection. The Cuckoo's Lea reminds us to listen and love the highly distinctive species which have shaped local identities.
Magical, enchanting and intriguing. Read in wonder and see Britain made anew with eyes that are both ancient and modern.
Simply phenomenal. Michael Warren has a great gift – this wonderful book is making me see landscapes anew.
A fascinating, haunting book which unveils the rich meaning layered into our places. The Cuckoo's Lea is a rosetta stone for our ecological history.
Intricate, deeply felt, earthed and airborne, fusing the knowledge of historian and naturalist to reveal the living pasts written in our landscapes as if with invisible ink.
A really lovely reflection on the deep history of the British landscape and the connection between the people who've lived in these places and the birds they must have heard and seen.
The Cuckoo’s Lea offers a fresh insight into the history of place and an exciting exploration of birds and language. It is well worth taking the time to read.
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