The Cuckoo's Lea [electronic resource] : The Forgotten History of Birds and Place
Michael J. Warren2025
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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, th...
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Author:
Michael J. Warren, Author
Imprint:
London United Kingdom : Bloomsbury Wildlife, 2025
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (304 pages)
Audience:
General / adult
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781399412056
Language:
English
BRN:
533745
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