Luminously beautiful and dartingly intelligent, Cocker's obsessive quest after the ancient trails of rooks across our dusk skies leads to an almost sacred space: a place where the landscape of the imagination and the lovingly, minutely observed realities of the natural world come to roost together -- Richard Mabey Guaranteed to ensure that you never look at a crow in quite the same way again * Guardian * Fabulous... Like all classic works of natural history, is is an extraordinary revelation of riches and wonders and that lie at our doorsteps, completely ignored * Independent * A splendid book...Crow Country's narrative of rookish discovery unfolds with splendid variety, incorporating scientific exposition, biography, environmental history, poetry, memoir and biography... Your heart beats faster as he describes a pack of tight-packed wigeon flushing in fear from an icy creak. You feel the shock of recognition as a barn owl meets his gaze. It's infectiously emotional. At it's most lyrical Crow Country matches the heights of that deeply eerie work of avian obsession JA Baker's The Peregrine; yet at its most scientific, it could sit alongside the best ornithological monographs... Crow Country is a significant, beautiful work * New Statesman * Exquisitely written, passionate exploration of the local and commonplace * BBC Wildlife * Cocker's gift is to draw you into his hobby so deftly that you quickly begin to share his every enthusiasm * Observer * Cocker is a beautiful writer...the twilight and his beloved rooks bring out the poet in him...a loving observation of the wonders on the wing in everyday England -- Ann Wroe * Daily Telegraph * The nation's most observant and intuitive of nature writers * Sunday Express * As obsessive a celebration of rook and jackdaw - and of human immersion in nature - as anyone could wish * Irish Times * A vivid example of the "new nature writing" it is a lyrical and intense evocation of the world of jackdaws and rook, and an elegy on watchfulness * Daily Telegraph *
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