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Imprint: Vintage Digital
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Published: 29/02/2012
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ISBN: 9781448105267
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Length: 240 Pages
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RRP: £10.99
Since 1972 Mark Cocker has been a member of a community of obsessional people, almost all male, who sacrifice most of their spare time, a good deal of money, sometimes their chances of a partner or family, even occasionally their lives, to watch birds.
Birders is the story of this community, of its characters, its rules, its equipment and its adventures - many of which are hilariously funny, Birders is also a work of love - the story of what birds can do to the human heart.
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Imprint: Vintage Digital
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Published: 29/02/2012
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ISBN: 9781448105267
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Length: 240 Pages
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RRP: £10.99
Reviews
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"At last! An up to date examination of what makes birders tick. And about time too! Wonderfully written"
Bill Oddie
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"A natural history version of Fever Pitch... Reading it may even make you want to try out this strangely addictive past time for yourself"
Guardian
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"Intensely readable, very funny and highly enlightening"
New Scientist
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"With a mixture of well-chosen anecdotes and self-deprecating humour, Cocker succeeds in making event he most hardened cynic appreciate his passion. Birders is a stylish work in a long tradition of fine writing on the subject"
Guardian
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"The best account yet of the "tribe" and its wonderful, unworldly passions"
The Times
