The Cuckoo's Lea : The Forgotten History of Birds and Place by Michael J. Warren signed sprayed edge edition

On 5th June Bloomsbury Wildlife will be publishing an Indies Exclusive Signed Edition of The Cuckoo’s Lea by Michael J Warren. Numbers are limited so pre-order now to secure yours.

Traces of an ancient landscape, birds and people echo faintly to anyone with care and patience enough to discover the signs. Birds in their hundreds feature in medieval places, and haunt our place names today. There is almost certainly a town or village near to you, wherever you live, with an avian origin. What is it about birds that caught people’s imaginations and made them such vivifying spirits and shapers of place?

The Cuckoo’s Lea weaves together early literature, history and ornithology, revealing the significance of birds in our place names and our heritage. When so many places and their birds are threatened or already gone, The Cuckoo’s Lea is a typical and emotive call for us all to take notice, appreciate and fight for the nature of our past, present and future