Mark Cocker, Author . Atlantic Monthly $25 (240p) ISBN 978-0-87113-844-6
British author Cocker (Loneliness and Time) considers the eccentric clanlike world of bird-watchers in this endearing examination of an obsession and the people who share it. Cocker's own love of birds dates to an attic encounter with pigeons...
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Mark Cocker, Author Pantheon Books $23 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-42242-6
Cocker, biographer of the naturalist Richard Meinertzhagen, has formulated a loosely organized and highly academic inquiry into 20th-century travel writing by examining and contrasting a variety of books written by explorers. Included are Lt. Col....
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Mark Cocker, Author Grove Publishing $30 (432p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1666-6
Advancing the revisionist tradition, Cocker's book demonstrates the gruesome similarities among events usually seen as radically disparate: the Spanish conquest of Mexico, the British takeover of Tasmania, the subjugation of the Apache in the...
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