The Birds and the Bees series was designed for Vintage Classics by Timorous Beasties, the Scottish studio famous for their designs inspired by the natural worldOne night Mark Cocker followed the roiling, deafening flock of rooks and...

The influential nature-writing voice behind "Crow Country" embarks on a journey taking in the people and places that have informed contemporary British conservation culture, using these examples as a platform from which to consider the...

Cocker's brilliant description of his journeys in search of crows and ravens, birds that obsessed him and changed his life forever. A prose poem in a long tradition of English pastoral writing, it's also a reminder that 'Crow Country' is...

A study of travel writing as a literary art examines the lives and works of a dozen major travel writers, including Wilfred Thesiger, Gavin Maxwell, Laurens van der Post, and Lawrence Durrell.