The Cuckoo's Lea
The Forgotten History of Birds and Place
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Wildlife
- Date of Publication 5 June 2025
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781399412070
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages pages
- Size 216x135 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 1 black and white map. 700
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Short description:
An enthralling exploration of the significance of birds and place through Britain's history.
MoreLong description:
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
1. An Antiquity of Cranes
2. The Cuckoo's Lea
3. Pathless Ways
4. Charterlands
5. An Owl's Cry
6. Marsh Dwellers
7. The Gull's Home
8. Everywhere and Nowhere
9. Hawk in the Wood
10. Crow Hill
Epilogue
Birds in English Place Names: A Glossary
References and Further Reading
Acknowledgements
Index
The Cuckoo's Lea: The Forgotten History of Birds and Place
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