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|author= Mark Cocker

|title=Claxton: Notes From a Small Planet

|rating= 4.5

|genre= Animals and Wildlife

|summary= In 2001, author Mark Cocker moved to Claxton, a small village in Norfolk that manages to be wonderfully remote, and yet only a few miles from Norwich. In a series of writings spanning the course of a year, Cocker quietly explores nature in the village, and his relationship to the living things around him, as well as the surrounding landscape. All written with a deep knowledge and a wonderful eye for detail, Cocker truly gets to the heart of the local wildlife and the local community.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099593475</amazonuk>

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{{newreview

|author=Zoe Greaves and Leslie Sadlier

|summary=I've always been fascinated by hummingbirds - delicate, colourful, beautifully and brilliantly adapted to extract nectar from flowers. Perhaps most of all for me it's their acrobatic flight - the ability to hover and manoeuvre which has me hooked: I could watch them for hours, amazed that birds whose weight can only meaningfully be given in ounces can do so much. I was drawn to this book as soon as I saw it, for a number of reasons.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782400893</amazonuk>

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~~|author=Marianne Taylor and Andrew Perris~~

~~|title=Beautiful Owls: Portraits of Arresting Species from Around the World~~

~~|rating=4~~

~~|genre=Pets~~

|summary=Owls are strange birds: because they're crepuscular and twilight isn't the best time for ''seeing'' birds with any clarity they tend to be the stuff of legend and we don't know as much about them as we might. On the other hand, they're the most recognisable of birds, perhaps because of the forward-facing eyes and would look almost human if it was not for that uncanny ability to swivel the neck to almost 360°. Marianne Taylor has gone some way towards correcting this lack of knowledge in ''Beautiful Owls''. She gives us an overview of the species, traces them back to the earliest civilisations and shows their evolution.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908005971</amazonuk>~~

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