This is author and naturalist Mark Cocker’s shortest book to date, but also in a sense his most weighty. Drawing on several decades of close observation of the natural world, Cocker invites us to see the living world with fresh eyes, with open hearts and without preconceptions.

The Nature of Seeing includes eighty 400-word essays, most of which appeared in The Guardian’s ‘Country Diary’ column, to which Cocker has been a regular contributor for 38 years. This word count restriction, far from limiting the writer’s powers of expression, prompts a diamantine prose style ...

 

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