{"product_id":"crow-country-1","title":"Crow Country","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne night Mark Cocker followed the roiling, deafening flock of rooks and jackdaws which regularly passed over his Norfolk home on their way to roost in the Yare valley. From the moment he watched the multitudes blossom as a mysterious dark flower above the night woods, these gloriously commonplace birds were unsheathed entirely from their ordinariness. They became for Cocker a fixation and a way of life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCocker goes in search of them, journeying from the cavernous, deadened heartland of South England to the hills of Dumfriesshire, experiencing spectacular failures alongside magical successes and epiphanies. Step by step he uncovers the complexities of the birds'' inner lives, the unforeseen richness hidden in the raucous crow song he calls ''our landscape made audible''.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCrow Country \u003c\/i\u003eis a prose poem in a long tradition of English pastoral writing. It is also a reminder that ''Crow Country'' is not ''ours'': it is a landscape which we cohabit with thousands of other species, and these richly complex fellowships cannot be valued too highly.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOne Midsummer''s Day\u003c\/i\u003e by Mark Cocker coming in June 2023.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57321370157438,"sku":"NW9780099485087","price":11.67,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780099485087.jpg?v=1778237275","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/crow-country-1","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}