The Cuckoo's Lea
The Forgotten History of Birds and Place
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 5 June 2025
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781399412070
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages304 pages
- Size 226x144x38 mm
- Weight 420 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 1 black and white map. 618
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Short description:
An captivating exploration of the significance of birds and place through Britain's history.
MoreLong description:
A BBC WILDLIFE BEST BOOK OF 2025
'Magical . No journey in Britain will be quite the same again.' The Guardian
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.
Table of Contents:
Prologue
Chapter one: An Antiquity of Cranes
Chapter two: The Cuckoo's Lea
Chapter three: Pathless Ways
Chapter four: Charterlands
Chapter five: An Owl's Cry
Chapter six: Marsh Dwellers
Chapter seven: The Gull's Home
Chapter eight: Everywhere and Nowhere
Chapter nine: Hawk in the Woods
Chapter ten: Crow Hill
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Birds in English Place Names: A Glossary
Permissions
Notes
Further Reading and References
Index
