Mark Cocker writes nature books about birds, wildlife, landscape and the relationship between people and the non-human world. Crow Country follows rooks, crows and other corvids through close observation and cultural history, while Claxton records a year of wildlife around his Norfolk village in short seasonal entries. Birds Britannica, written with Richard Mabey, combines natural history with folklore, local names and human attitudes to British birds. Cocker's prose is detailed, attentive and literary without losing observational precision, and his books move easily between field observation and cultural history. His work fits bird writing, British nature writing, natural history and place-based essays. Read more Less