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The Curious Life of the Cuckoo
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Our greatest nature writer explores the myths, legends, history, and hidden world of one of our most secretive and masterfully duplicitous animals. Is there any bird more mysterious than the cuckoo? It is invariably heard, and not seen. And if seen, it is mistaken for a...
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Our greatest nature writer explores the myths, legends, history, and hidden world of one of our most secretive and masterfully duplicitous animals.
Is there any bird more mysterious than the cuckoo?
It is invariably heard, and not seen. And if seen, it is mistaken for a sharp-winged hawk. The female cuckoo—by a trick that borders on alchemy—is able to disguise its egg as another's. In Greek myth, the god Zeus assumed the form of a cuckoo to seduce Hera.
But we forgive the cuckoo its con-artistry because it is the true herald of spring. It is the bird that uplifts our wintered hearts with that first two-note 'cuk-koo', unmistakable as it sounds across the country.
In The Curious Life of the Cuckoo, John Lewis-Stempel explains one of nature's greatest enigmas in vivid, lyrical prose, and celebrates this iconic bird.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780857526410
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 06 March 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Doubleday
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 13.0mm
Width: 133.0mm
Height: 205.0mm
Weight: 198g
Pages: 112
About the Author
John Lewis-Stempel is a farmer and 'Britain's finest living nature writer' (The Times). His books include the Sunday Times bestsellers Woodston, The Running Hare and The Wood. He is the only person to have won the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing twice, with Meadowland and Where Poppies Blow. In 2016 he was named Magazine Columnist of the Year for his column in Country Life. He farms cattle, sheep, pigs and poultry. Traditionally.
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